To mark the occasion of MOMU Antwerp’s ‘P.LACE.S’ - Looking through Antwerp Lace exhibition, the fashion museum of Antwerp asked SHOWstudio to create an artistic intervention for the show. Using the medium of fashion film, directors Britt Lloyd and Rei Nadal were each asked to respond artistically to the important role Antwerp has played in the production and trade of lace.

Working in response to specific locations, Lloyd created a poetic, black-and-white fashion film titled ‘Lumineux’ for the St Charles Borromeo Church, which boasts the most important collection of lace from the 17th and 18th centuries in Antwerp. Nadal made a fashion film that is as poetic and romantic as it was eerily nostalgic. Visually inspired by classical Dutch paintings from the 17th century, ‘Maagdenhuis’ takes its name from The Maagdenhuis Museum - located in a 17th-century historic building - originally used as an orphanage for the maegdeckens, or maidens, up until the 19th century.

The exhibition is now open to the public until 2 January 2022 at MOMU Antwerp and four different locations located in Antwerp, Belgium.

For SHOWstudio & MOMU Antwerp
Direction: Britt Lloyd
Exhibition Curators:
Romy Cockx, Kaat Debo, Wim Mertens
Fashion:
Alexander McQueen, Iris van Herpen, Jo Miller & Marta Jakubowski, Maison Margiela, Simone Rocha
Models: Harry Alexander, Kibrea Carmichael
Styling: Charlotte Roberts
Make-up: Mattie White
Set Design: David Konix
Choreography: Benjamin Milan
DIT: Elliot Chyi
Focus Puller: Klim Jurevicius
Executive Production: Kat Davey, Charlotte Knight
Production: Jerome Danvers, Teo Budimir
Photographic Assistance: Josh Bister
Styling Assistance: Tim Brooks
Set Design Assistance: Guymon Cheung
Production Assistance: Jack Peters
Lighting Assistance: Stefan Ebelewicz
Gaffer: Michel Bewley
Grip: Brendan Senden