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Marga Weimans – Fashion House

Start Date 15 June 2014
End Date 23 November 2014
Venue Groninger Museum
Location Groningnen, Netherlands
Curator Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp
A mannequin wears a black embroidered dress with elaborately large skirt. On the curved wall around it is a black and white landscape-style photo of Weimans' work. In the background is a manipulated portrait of a person with a glass building on their head.
Mannequins wear dresses printed with abstract images of buildings in a blue room. In the background is an illustration of a view from a window.
Four mannequins wearing printed dresses stand in or next to black metal framed structuresin a yellow room. In the background is an entry into a pink-painted room.

Marga Weimans – Fashion House

First major retrospective of fashion designer Marga Weimans (1970). Weimans was the first Dutch couturier to graduate from the prestigious fashion programme at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her work she addresses a wide variety of themes concerning identity, technology, and beauty. Sources of inspiration are, among others, her Surinamese background and living in a major city as Rotterdam, as well as innovative techniques and materials.