Von Maxi zu Mini und umgekehrt: Zum Motiv der Modepuppe als Modemedium im Werk von Viktor & Rolf

Pamela C. Scorzin

Authors

Pamela C. Scorzin FH Dortmund

Keywords:

viktor & rolf, fashion doll, designer doll,, fashion design, fashion medium, scenographic fashion design

Abstract

En miniature, the limited edition of fashion dolls designed by the Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf represents their characteristic, conceptual fashion design. Since 2008, these exclusive designer dolls have been documenting exemplary iconic looks of previous seasonal fashion collections and can thus also be presented in a universal art context. Their function and role are manifold: as a reflexive fashion medium, they condense and stage the singular specifics of the fashion designs of Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, who work with surreal reflections, refractions, miniaturisations, but also enlargements and reversals of details; on the other hand, they refer meta-referentially to the communication and mediation of fashion in tradition and history.

Author Biography

Pamela C. Scorzin, FH Dortmund

born 1965 in Vicenza (Italy), studied European art history, philosophy,
History and English/American Studies in Stuttgart and Heidelberg; 1992
Magistra Artium and in 1994 doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Ruprecht-Karls-
University in Heidelberg. After assisting in 2001, habilitation at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Lectureships and professorships at the universities of Siegen and Frankfurt am Main as well as at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. At the same time freelance work as an art, design and media theorist. She has been a member of the AICA since 2006 and has been a professor of art history and visual culture in the Design Department at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2008. International publications (German, English, French and Polish) on the history of art and culture from the 17th to the 21st century. Lives, works and researches in Dortmund, Milan and Los Angeles.