Title
Everything You Can Imagine is Real
Posted In
Fashion, Exhibition
Duration
27 May 2016 to 21 August 2016
Venue
Dansmuseet Stockholm
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Friday 11.00 - 17.00 / Saturday to Sunday 12.00 - 16.00 / Mondays closed
Location
Drottninggatan 17
111 51 Stockholm
Sweden
Telephone
+46 8 441 76 51
Email
[email protected]
Visit Website
dansmuseet.se
Detailed Information
TitleEverything You Can Imagine is RealPosted InFashion, ExhibitionDuration27 May 2016 to 21 August 2016
VenueDansmuseet StockholmOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 11.00 - 17.00 / Saturday to Sunday 12.00 - 16.00 / Mondays closedLocation
Drottninggatan 17
111 51 Stockholm
Sweden
Telephone+46 8 441 76 51Email[email protected]Visit Websitedansmuseet.se

Designed by Polish-born, Stockholm-based fashion designer Bea Szenfeld, the collection ‘Haute Papier’ is an assortment of whimsical costumes made entirely of paper. Pushing fashion to its most sculptural extremes, these utterly impractical yet visually gorgeous costumes seem to have popped out of some avant-garde fashion fantasy. With Szenfeld’s creations being truly at the forefront of contemporary fashion, it comes as no surprise that they have been worn by leading fashion icons such as Lady Gaga and Björk; her work has also been presented as part of Utopian Bodies, an exhibition that took place in Stockholm in late 2015 and which explored the future and function of fashion.

 

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Rena Narumi. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Rena Narumi. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Anna Danielsson. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Anna Danielsson. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

In a more recent collaboration, Bea Szenfeld teamed up with creative agency STOCKHOLM GRAPHICS and photographers Karolina Henke, Carl Thorborg and Stina Wirsén to create a photo campaign for The Royal Swedish Opera. Dancers and singers from the opera’s talented troupe were photographed wearing pieces from Szenfeld’s Haute Papier collection, bringing new life and motion to these extraordinary creations. The resulting collaboration is now the subject of an exhibition at Stockholm’s Dance Museum, where musicians and dancers can be seen photographed in unexpected, almost surreal settings. The campaign was directed by Pompe Hedengren, creative director at STOCKHOLM GRAPHICS, who was invited by the Swedish Opera four years ago to reinvent its visual identity.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Clyde Archer in Guldfoajén. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Clyde Archer in Guldfoajén. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Emma Vetter. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Emma Vetter. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Gina Tse. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Gina Tse. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Mikael Magnell. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. Opera's Mikael Magnell. Photo by Karolina Henke © Dance Museum Stockholm.

High on Paper: Bea Szenfeld Dresses the Royal Swedish Opera Company with ‘Haute Papier’

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