Read More Here: "David Beckham poses in Armani underwear, flexing his perfect abs. Bare-chested Thierry Henry models for Tommy Hilfiger. French rugby players lounge naked. And body odor wafts through the rooms.
Literally: A bio-engineered smell of sweat is regularly pumped through the exhibition's final section to give a sense of the human body among the mannequins. Until I found out, I assumed my fellow visitors were a particularly stinky bunch.
Welcome to ``Fashion V Sport'' at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, a look at the interaction between fashion and sport, and how they feed off each other in clothing design.
With sections named ``Desire,'' ``Dare,'' ``Display,'' and ``Play,'' this is fundamentally a standard mannequin show, and the curating is by no means breathtaking. It has many small, ill-lit and awkwardly placed labels. Some read more like gushing public-relations blurbs than critical appraisals."
Friday, 15 August 2008
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