Go As You Please - Ann-Sofie Back 1998-2018
November 8th - February 23, 2025
Ann-Sofie Back has been called Sweden's most influential clothing designer, known for her subversive and thought-provoking fashion, often inspired by clichés about femininity, shame and failed glamor. Now, she is showcasing her collections from her entire fashion career with Go As You Please - Ann-Sofie Back 1998-2018, an exhibition that will fill Liljevalchs+ in the fall of 2024.
Ann-Sofie Back graduated from Central St Martin's in 1998. Since then she has made collections under her own name until 2018. Her collections have been shown at London and Paris Fashion Weeks and sold in stores worldwide. Ann-Sofie Back's design archive has been kept almost completely intact since she started designing in 1998. Everything is saved and now takes place in Liljevalchs + as a form of prospective-retrospective for the long and acclaimed career in the fashion world.
Ann-Sofie Back's work has been inspired by stereotypes of beauty, taste, femininity, social phenomena and fashion that create a tool for status, that is, the transformative properties of fashion. Her work has been shown in prominent museums and galleries around the world.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book covering Ann-Sofie Back's entire career, including sketches, catwalk images, campaigns, press clippings and show invitations. It also includes various styling assignments by Ann-Sofie Back for Self Service, Purple and Dazed, among others. The catalog also includes texts from interviews and articles.
Photo from "Ann-Sofie Back aw04″, photo: Chris Moore.
