{"id":19820,"date":"2020-02-06T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/?p=19820"},"modified":"2023-10-05T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:31:23","slug":"white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/white\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Shades of White. A Colour in Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anything but monotonous! In fashion, white is given a special role to play, which the exhibition \u2018100 Shades of White\u2019 highlights in its many facets. The show can be seen from March 3 up to and including September 10, 2023 in the Textilmuseum St. Gallen.<\/p>\n

The colour of light, the clouds, snow: white symbolises joy, purity, innocence, a new beginning, peace, silence, emptiness \u2013 and death. Hardly any other colour is assigned such symbolic content, something that is reflected in our dress habits, too. White is worn at such religious ceremonies as a baptism, communion or wedding, yet is also employed on social occasions, for sport or as working apparel, too.<\/p>\n

The choice of a colour is not always on account of its meaning. White fabrics possess extraordinary aesthetic qualities. The appeal that lies in the reduction of colour; the play with the most subtle shadings and nuances, with transparency and texture, have always held a fascination for fashion and textile designers. Moreover, white underwear is closely connected with the history of hygiene, playing a role in fashion as underclothing that cannot be underestimated.<\/p>\n

Based on more than one hundred objects \u2013 costumes, accessories and other textiles, photographs and advertising \u2013 the exhibition titled \u2018100 Shades of White\u2019 offers insight into the fashion and cultural history of a luminous colour that sometimes throws up black shadows.<\/p>\n

The special significance of white textiles for Eastern Switzerland is not to remain in the dark: here we throw light on the white embroidery, artistically handcrafted, that represented an important source of income in Appenzell-Innerrhoden up to the 20th<\/sup> century. And we make a foray through the \u2018white city\u2019 of St. Gallen, whose rise to become an important textile location was bound up with the fashion colour from the beginning.<\/p>\n

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