Exhibition: Three Eyes - Five Young Chinese Designers

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Exhibition: Three Eyes - Five Young Chinese Designers

Han Nefkens Foundation commissioned five young Chinese designers to make new works for exhibition The Future of Fashion is Now, shown in Shenzhen.
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(source: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen)

Last year the Han Nefkens Foundation commissioned five young Chinese designers to make new works for this exhibition, shown at the OCT Art & Design Gallery in Shenzhen, as a supplement to the travelling exhibition ‘The Future of Fashion is Now’.

At the end of last year the well-known Chinese designers Zhang Da, Dooling Jiang and ZucZug drew up a list of current talented Chinese fashion stylists. Initiator Han Nefkens, guest curator José Teunissen and Feng Feng, the artistic director of the OCT Art and Design Gallery in Shenzhen, selected the designers of the new works from a shortlist. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in collaboration with Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge, is showing these new Chinese works in Rotterdam from October onwards. This special joint venture has provided a platform for innovative fashion designers for several years now, creating an opportunity for talented national and international fashion designers to show their work to a wide public.

The five designers Dido Liu, Fang Ye, Fixxed Studios, Percy Lau, ZAZ share the belief that tradition and the future must go hand in hand. According to Chinese culture, a designer needs three eyes: two to look to the future and one to look back on five thousand years of Chinese culture.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, designed by Glamcult Studio and published by the Han Nefkens Foundation.