Sofia Ilmonen: Formations
Sofia Ilmonen’s fashion exhibition Formations opened originally as part of the Fashion in Helsinki week in May. Due to its great popularity, the exhibition was extended and is now included in the museum’s exhibition program. Free entrance!
Location:
Architecture & Design Museum
Building D, Auditorium
Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki
A wardrobe from here to the future. Formations is an exhibition that envisions a new era of fashion and clothing. It is a journey into the potential of modular design and its ability to create sustainable, inclusive, and adaptable garments. Modular clothing blurs and redraws the boundaries of traditional garments. A favourite piece of clothing can be many: an adaptable whole that morphs with its wearer’s needs: shirt to skirt, skirt to trousers.
A garment becomes a set of endless possibilities rather than a fixed, unchanging shape. Each piece in the collection is crafted from square-shaped modules whose unique structural design allows for endless combinations. But modularity isn’t just a technical solution it’s a new way of thinking about clothing, ownership, and fashion itself. Could the wardrobe of the future be nothing more than a stack of modules, creatively and playfully assembled into ever-changing outfits? We change, so why shouldn’t our clothes?
Thank you:
The Finnish Cultural Foundation
