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Go As You Please – Ann-Sofie Back 1998–2018
8 November – 23 February
Ann-Sofie Back has been called Sweden’s most influential clothing designer, known for her subversive and thought-provoking fashion, often inspired by clichées about femininity, shame and failed glamour. Now, she presents her collections from her entire carreer with Go As You Please – Ann-Sofie Back 1998–2018, an exhibition that will fill Liljevalchs+ during the fall of 2024.
Ann-Sofie Back got her MFA from Central St Martin’s in 1998. Since then, she has made collections in her own name until 2018. Her collection has been showed on London and Paris Fashion Weeks and been sold in stores all over the world. The design archive of Back has been kept almost intact since she started designing in 1998. Everything is saved and is now taking place at Liljevalchs+ as a kind of prospective-retrospective for her long, celebrated carreer in the fashion world.
The works of Ann-Sofie Back were inspired by stereotypical images of beauty, taste, femininity, social phenomena and fashion, creating a tool for status, i.e. the transformative elements of fashion. Her work has been presented at prominent museums and galleries around the world.
Alongside the exhibition, a book has been composed, covering the whole carreer of Ann-Sofie Back, including sketches, catwalk images, campaigns, press cuttings and invitations for fashion shows. The catalogue also features interviews and articles, as well as different styling projects by Ann-Sofie Back for Self Self Service, Purple and Dazed, among others.
Photo from “Ann-Sofie Back aw04″, photo: Chris Moore.
