dekonstruktivisme:
Walter Van Beirendonck autumn—winter 1997—98, Walter Van Beirendonck autumn—winter 1996—97, Lieve Van Gorp spring—summer 1998, Lieve Van Gorp autumn—winter 1997—98.
Walter Van Beirendonck: I have always been been preoccupied with it, with nudity. With what you can get away with and what you can’t. I wanted somehow to show a penis, a naked male, but I never did because I couldn’t find a way to do it. I didn’t just want to shock people.
I finally managed to do it by putting a print of a penis on a pair of trousers which was worn in the show as a piece of trompe l’oeil. At first sight it seemed completely real. The audience seemed to think so too, until the model passed them. Then they felt relieved — it was only a print. On that occasion I managed to combine two things, the shock of nudity and the intellectual quality of an image.
Lieve Van Gorp: Materials should radiate a certain purity and be ‘integrated’, rather than ‘decorative’. The same goes for form.