The Vulgar

13 October 2016 – 5 February 2017
Barbican, London

3 March – 25 June 2017
The Winterpalais, Belvedere, Vienna

30 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
Modemuseum, Hasselt

The exhibition presented and responded to various definitions of the vulgar written by the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. Along with displaying objects from a 500-year span, The Vulgar referenced fashion’s own history of display.

 

Wigs by Angelo Seminara, millinery by Stephen Jones, illustrations by Alice Smith. Exhibition designed in collaboration with Sam Collins.