We love knitting, we love fashion and we love knitting machines (although we're buggered if we can work out how to use the bloody things) so this exhibition, which features all three and which thus far seems to have slipped under the radar, is a dead cert for 'show of the week'.
According to the high falutin' exhibition description "The Endless Garment celebrates the virtuosity and future directions of the new craft of machine knitting which is changing the way fashion is designed and made." sho nuff. But it will also showcase the kinds of computerised industrial knitting machines covet and work by a range of international designers that will make us swoon and send us straight to the yarn store. The fact that it also features Nikki Gabriel who is not only a genius with yarn but also one of the nicest peeps you'll ever meet don't hurt neither.
ISSEY MIYAKE (Japan)
SANDRA BACKLUND (Sweden)
COOPERATIVE DESIGNS (UK)
MARK FAST (UK)
SAVERIO PALATELLA (Italy)
FREDDIE ROBINS (UK)
SIBLING (UK)
It opens TONIGHT 6-8pm and Nikki will be there making "a special address" and a model (maybe even the one above) will be wearing her dresses. NIkki is also holding a workshop as part of the public programming, which will no doubt sell out in a matter of minutes, so book early. Oh and Miss Penpen has a stack of Nikki's ebony needles and hand knitting kits which include hand spun wool and are officially "to die for", so you can buy one and have a crack at some high fashion yourself, just in time for the opening.
The Endless Garment: The New Craft of Machine Knitting.
RMIT Gallery
344 Swanston Street Melbourne
12 February - 21 March 2010
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