Exuberant Couture

Is the exuberant confined to architecture? Judith Clark , curator and lecturer in the history and theory of fashion, looks into the sartorial equivalent of digital exuberance. She describes how exuberance in fashion is largely performance-based expressed on the catwalk, as epitomised by Hussein Chalayan's dramatic staging of his shows. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Skin/Weave/Pattern

‘Fabric is the perfect mediator between the firm and the flowing.’ Nigel Coates celebrates the textile's rediscovery as a metaphor for the architectural envelope, liberating it from its reputation as having only a supporting, ‘comfort role’ in the interior. He describes his own experiments with textiles at Branson Coates Architecture and the Royal College of Art (RCA), in which they alternately become skin, weave and pattern operating at every scale from the individual body to the urban plan. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.