Fashion : Azzedine Alaïa

I told you already that I have been to an exhibition in the Groninger Museum (in Groningen in The Netherlands) about the Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa when we were visiting my family. It was fantastic. The dresses were shown on fashion dolls and you could walk around them to see all sides, and to see all details close by. And with Alaïa's dresses, this is quite important, because then you can see the innovative materials he uses and the seams that are almost invisible. He is combining leather, silk, organza, velvet (sometimes in a very real looking animal print), battist, knitted felted wool, lace, etc. I made lots of pics, but most of them were very bad :( It was pretty dark in the exhibition rooms and I was not allowed to use flashlight, so to get decent pics I had to have a long exposure time and with no tripod I cannot get my camera stable enough. But I bought the magazine of the museum, and scanned some of the pics so that you still can enjoy a bit of what I saw :)