DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION

The destefasioncollection in Miami!

Starting April 27, 2018, the exhibition DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8, first presented at the Benaki Museum in Athens in 2014, will be presented at the The Bass Museum of Art in Miami. Adapted by The Bass in collaboration with the DESTE Foundation, the exhibition design in Miami Beach is created by architect Edwin Chan and marks […]

ΦIRMA GYPSY GLOBALES – WORKSHOP

Friday, September 26, 2014 at 18:00 Benaki Museum, Pireos St., Athens Through her work Φirma Gypsy Globales, Greek artist Maria Papadimitriou creates a story around the fashion of Gypsies using objects and clothes from Roma camps. More specifically, the work revolves around the life and customs of the Gypsies and develops a hybrid narrative that […]

“everybody’s contemporary”: An Online Collective Project

Please accept statistics, marketing cookies to watch this video. “everybody’s contemporary” is an online collective project (www.destefashioncollection1to8.gr/) that runs parallel to the DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8 exhibition. Encountering the destefashioncollection items and questioning “the tensions, affinities, and distance” between art and fashion that the exhibition curatorial has noted, this DIY sartorial project is an open-format, unscripted, collectively […]

THE destefashioncollection AT THE BENAKI MUSEUM, PIREOS STREET ANNEXE

We are happy to announce that the destefashioncollection is being presented for the first time in its entirety in the exhibition “DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8”. The show is hosted at the Benaki Museum, Pireos Street Annexe and is designed and curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Adam M. Bandler and Mark Wasiuta. The show will be on view between June […]

Maria Papadimitriou to curate the 2014 Capsule of the destefashioncollection

We are happy to announce that Greek artist Maria Papadimitriou will be the curator of the destefashioncollection’s 2014 capsule. For more information on the project, please click here.