Conceived as a modular playground in collaboration with scenographer Georgi Stanishev, this exhibition begins with garments and accessories from Stéphane Ashpool’s early works and collaborations, notably with the Pigalle label. Accompanied by photographs and archival documents, these items illustrate the sustained creative dialogue between the designer and the Maisons d’art for close to 10 years.
The second sequence presents new pieces created specifically for the exhibition at la Galerie du 19M. Sculptural pieces that play with scale, materials, and functionality populate the exhibition. Samples, photographs, and videos reveal the making-of of this unique capsule collection.
To round things off, a movie theatre showing never-before-seen videos invites viewers to take a closer look at Stéphane Ashpool’s creative process, using textures, colours, and materials to create his work in the heart of the Maisons d’art workshops.
the Artist
Stéphane Ashpool
Stéphane Ashpool was born in 1982 in the Pigalle district of Paris to a Yugoslavian dancer mother and an English sculptor father. He made his name as a fashion designer with the Pain O’Chokolat collective and the sportswear brand Pigalle Paris, through which he has collaborated with Nike and Missoni, among others. He designed “Playground Duperré”, a colourful basketball court created in place of a former car park near his old school in Pigalle. In 2015, he received the grand prize from the Association nationale pour le développement des arts de la mode (Andam) and was awarded a year’s mentoring in several of le19M’s Métiers d’art workshops.
