Acne Studios Autumn/Winter 2013 Women’s collection is a collaboration between artist Katerina Jebb, the Musée Galliera – Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris and Acne Studios. For this collection we sought to make the invisible visible and the unwearable wearable. We wanted to explore fashion from a different angle, decontextualize it and make history visible.

We’ve had access to the Musée Galliera’s remarkable archive of historical garments, and in forming our collection around them we are resurrecting things that would other- wise be hidden. These historical pieces are reinterpreted and will now be worn again.

Katerina Jebb created artworks by scanning historical garments from the museum’s archive and using them to construct photomontages, mostly of the inside of the garments. The inside is usually unseen, obscure and not meant to be displayed. And the result of revealing the inside of the garments is unexpected, almost intimate and brutally honest. Katerina’s artworks are abstract interpretations, but show a respectful awareness of history and handicraft.

Art is something I enjoy in my work as well as in my private life, so collaborating with an artist like Katerina Jebb has been a privilege, both in the process and the result. And since a significant part of fashion history is preserved in the Musée Galliera’s archive, we felt this was something that deserves to be recognised and shared within a modern cultural context.

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