Mercedes-Benz Young Classics Revisited, a Recollection Quartett

For the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp and Mercedes-Benz, invited Belgian art director Frederik Heyman and 4 fashion designers - Bernhard Willhelm, Peter Pilotto, Henrik Vibskov and Mikio Sakabe - to create 4 installations.

At the heart of each installation stands a Mercedes-Benz Young Classics. From these cars from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, 4 cars were selected. For each of them, photographer and artist Frederik Heyman created a unique decor and used it only once in a photographic illustration. Humor and a surrealist visual vocabulary are part of his artistic signature. His decors are built completely by hand, in collaboration with a team of sculptors and artists. The 4 fashion designers have added their own visions to the installations.

Bernard Willhelm

Peter Pilotto

Henrik Vibskov

Mikio Sakabe

The installation

Recollection Quartett: W115 Mikio Sakabe from MoMuAntwerp on Vimeo. 

Courtesy Mercedes-Benz

Recollection Quartett is currently on view 

Stephen Jones and the Accent of Fashion

From September 8/ 2010 until February 13/ 2011, the MoMU - Fashion Museum in Antwerp will present a retrospective exhibition of the work of British milliner Stephen Jones. The exhibition guides you through the unique world of a hatmaker who has worked with many of the greatest names in the fashion scene for three decades: Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Christian Dior, Marc Jacobs, and many more.
A look at some of his fabulous hats.

Himself

John Galliano 2004-05

Comme des Garcons, 2006-07

Dior, 2007-08

Gilles Deacon, 2009

Jason Wu

Issa

Kinder

Mainbocher

John Galliano

Laissez Faire

LWren Scott

John Galliano 

Images courtesy of MoMU and Stephen Jones