Chalayan Black
Biography
Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and was educated both in Cyprus and England.
2009 November - Winner of Outstanding Lifetime Achievement to Design at the FX International Interior Design Awards, London
2009 October - In the Spirit of Diaghilev - Costume collaboration with dancer and choreograph Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for one of four works inspired by Diaghilev and Les Ballets Russes for the Sadlers Wells Production ‘In the Spirit of Diaghilev', London
2009 October - Dolce far Niente Spring/Summer 2010 Womenswear Collection
2009 September - The Art of Fashion - exhibition of a specially commissioned tank installation entitled Micro Geography: A Cross Section, three SS09 Finale Foam Dresses, one SS07 Mechanical Dress and one Airmail dress at the Museum Boijmans vanBeuningen, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2009 August - Nominated for 2009 Prince Philip Design Award
2009 July - Launch of HOME Tote Bag - in support of the PPR Home Movie Project, which explores environmental issues effecting the world today. It's a non-profit making/ charity initiative with the sole objective to increase wider awareness and sense of responsibility towards the planet.
2009 June - Arnhem Mode Biennale - exhibition of SS09 Finale Foam Dress at the 2009 July Arnhem Mode Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands
2009 May - Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers - exhibition of one SS02 Medea collection November dress at the Institute of Contemporary Art Valencia (IVAM), Spain, as part of the Extreme Fontiers, Urban Frontiers exhibition
2009 March - JBrand Denim collaboration - announcement of the on-going collaboration with the Designer Denim label J Brand; a reinterpretation of the long standing brandaesthetic - The Hybrid - within a denim context
2009 March - Earthbound Autumn/Winter 2009 Womenswear Collection 8th March - Paris Show 3rd June - St. Petersburg Show sponsored by Elle Russia
2009 February - Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones - SS'98 Wooden Egg Helmet and SS'09 May Crash Hat exhibited in the Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2009 January - Hussein Chalayan: From Fashion and Back - Comprehensive selection of May Hussein Chalayan's 15 years of work exhibited at the Design Museum, London
2009 January - Archeology of the Future: 20 year of Trend Forecasting with Li Edelkoort March Display of the SS'98 Between and AW'99 Echoform show films in the Archeology of the Future exhibition in:
The Insitut Néerlandais, Paris, France (21st January - 9th March)
Designhuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands (27th March - 31st May)
2008 October - Rrripp!! Paper Fashion - Airmail Dress exhibited in the Rrripp!! Paper Fashion exhibition in the Musee d'Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
2008 October - Inertia Spring/Summer 2009 Womenswear Collection
2008 June - Dichter op de huid - A/W'00 Tulle Dress exhibited in the Dichter op de huid September exhibition in the National Glasmuseum Leerdam/ Fort Asperen, Netherlands
2008 September - Gothic:Glamour - pieces exhibited in the Gothic: Glamour exhibition at February The Museum at FIT, New York
2008 June - Denim: Fabric of Our Lives exhibition of 3 A/W'99 Memory denim pieces at September The HUB, Design Centre, Plymouth Museum, Plymouth, UK
2008 May - The Level Tunnel - Launch of the Level Tunnel Project in Mexico City, Mexico 7th October - Launch in Athens at the Hellenic Cosmos
2008 May - Superheros, Fashion and Fantasy - pieces exhibited in the Superheros, Fashion and Fantasy exhibition at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008 March -Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Award in the Fashion category for the A/W'07 Airborne collection. Also nominated for the award in the Interactive category. A/W'07 LED Dress exhibited as part of the 100 nominations exhibition in the Design Museum, London.
2008 February - Hussein Chalayan appointed Creative Director of Puma
2008 February - Grains and Steel Autumn/Winter 2008 Womenswear Collection sponsored by Swarovski
2008 February - Design and the Elastic Mind - display of the SS'07 Mechanical Dress (Look 30) in the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 December - Blog.Mode:Addressing Fashion - display of the SS'00 Pink Remote Control 2008 April Dress as part of the Blog.Mode:Addressing Fashion exhibition at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2007 November - Space for your Future - exhibition of LED-Dresses (Autumn/Winter 2007) at 2008 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007 October - Awarded Design Star Honoree by The Fashion Group International at their annual Night of Stars Gala, New York
2007 October - Readings Film made in collaboration with SHOWstudio showing the Spring/Summer 2008 Womenswear Collection, sponsored by Swarovski
2007 September - Istanbul Design Week - exhibition of LED-Dresses (Autumn/Winter 2007), Turkey
2007 August - Our Cyborg Future, Newcastle Discovery Museum, Newcastle November
2007 May - Tomorrow Now - When Design Meets Science Fiction - One Hundred And September Eleven (Spring/Summer 2007) Show Video exhibited at the Tomorrow Now - When design meets science fiction exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
2007 April - Dysfashional - Anaesthetics (2004) video and three Airmail dresses exhibited in the Dysfashional exhibition, Luxembourg et Grand Region Capitale Europeenne de la Culture, Luxembourg. Also shown at:
MUDAC, Lausanne / Switzerland (2008)
Paris / France (2009)
2007 April - The BBC Culture Show - broadcast on BBC2 Saturday 7th April at 7:30pm
2007 March - 25/25 - extract of the Before Minus Now (Spring/ Summer 2000) show video displayed as part of a Design Retrospective in the Design Museum, London
2007 February - Airborne Autumn/Winter 2007 Womenswear Collection sponsored by Turquality & Swarovski
2006 October -EurHope 1153: Contemporary Art from Bosphorus - Anaesthetics (2004) February and Temporal Meditations (2004) video pieces exhibited in EurHope 1153: Contemporary Art from Bosphorus exhibition, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy
2006 November - Skin and Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture - pieces exhibited in Skin and Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture exhibition at: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November - March 2007) The National Art Center, Tokyo (June - August 2007) Somerset House, London (April - August 2008)
2006 November - Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006 - pieces from the Autumn/Winter 2006 March collection exhibited in the: Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006 exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006 October - One Hundred And Eleven Spring/Summer 2007 Womenswear Collection 4th October, Paris show sponsored by Turquality & Swarovski 12th October, Tokyo show sponsored by Turquality
2006 June - Hussein Chalayan awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2006
2006 May - Anglomania - pieces exhibited in the: Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression September in British Fashion exhibition, MET Museum, New York
2006 April - Repose Installation - Installation piece, Kunsthalle Mannheim Gallery, Germany August
2006 April - Crystal Palace, Repose Installation - Installation piece exhibited in Milan in collaboration with Swarovski
2006 March - Repose Autumn/Winter 2006 Womenswear collection sponsored by Turquality
2006 January - Compassion Fatigue - short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at March Garanti Galeri, Istanbul
2006 January - Anamorphics Autumn/Winter 2006 Menswear Collection
2006 January - Runway Rocks collaboration piece with Swarovski
2005 October - Heliotropics Spring/Summer 2006 Womenswear collection sponsored by Turquality
2005 October - i-Dentity taking part at An Exhibition Celebrating 25 Years of i-D Magazine; Touring: London, Sao Paulo, New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris.
2005 July - Touch Wood Spring/Summer 2006 Menswear Collection
2005 June - Absent Presence - short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at the Venice Biennale as the main representation for the Turkish Pavilion. Sponsored by Turquality and Garanti Bank
2005 April - Hussein Chalayan, 10 years of work retrospective exhibition, Groninger Museum, September The Netherlands, then travelled to Wolfsburg, Germany Sponsored by Turquality
2005 March - Genometrics Autumn/Winter 2005/06 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Turquality 2005 January In shadows Autumn/Winter 2005/06 Menswear Collection
2004 October - Blindscape Spring/Summer 2005 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Turquality
2004 August - Anaesthetics - short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (September 2004) 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (October 2004)
2004 June - Chalayan Spring/Summer 2005, launch of new Womenswear line
2004 June - Act to Institution Spring/Summer 2005 Menswear Collection
2004 May - Place/Non Place airport event, Heathrow, London
2004 May - Goddess: The Classical Mode exhibition, Mode Museum, Antwerp
2004 April - Opening Hussein Chalayan Shop, Daikanyama, Tokyo
2004 March - Anthropology of Solitude Autumn/Winter 2004 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Turquality
2004 January - Anthropology of Solitude Autumn/Winter 2004 Menswear Collection
2003 October - Place to Passage - short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at:
The Truman Brewery, London (October 2003)
Projet 4 L Museum, Istanbul (April 2004)
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (May 2004)
Spazio Etoile, Rome (October 2004)
Centre George Pompidou - Beaubourg, Paris (December 2004)
Centraal Museum, Utrecht (February 2005)
2003 October - Temporal Meditations Spring/Summer 2004 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Turquality
2003 July - Temporal Meditations Spring/Summer 2004 Menswear Collection
2003 July - Temporal Meditations - short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Pitti Uomo, Florence Palais du Tokyo, Paris
2003 May - Goddess: The Classical Mode exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York August
2003 April - Patterns exhibition - Mode Museum, Antwerp August
2003 April - Echoform retrospective, Galerist, Istanbul
2003 March - Kinship Journeys Autumn/Winter 2003 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by ITKIB
2003 January - Place/Non Place - Autumn/Winter 2003 Menswear Collection
2003 January - Ways of Seduction/Femininity - Centraal Museum, Utrecht May Kinship Journey Installation
2002 October - Manifest Destiny Spring/Summer 2003 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Dupont
2002 October - C Magazine launch, curated and edited by Hussein Chalayan
2002 September - Ambimorphous exhibition - Mode Natie, Antwerp, Film by Marcus Tomlinson
2002 July - Absence and Presence Spring/Summer 2003, Launch of menswear collection
2002 April - Mood River - Wexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio Artist in residence 2002 and exhibition
2002 March - Ambimorphous Autumn/Winter 2002 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Dupont and ITKIB
2001 October - Hussein appointed Creative Director of Asprey
2001 October - Radical Fashion - Victoria & Albert Museum, London January Ventriloquy Installation
2001 October - London Designers - Museum at F.I.T, New York January Various past season looks
2001 October - Great Expectations - Design Council, Grand Central Terminal, New York Airmail Dress Installation
2001 October - Medea, AF Sandys Spring/Summer 2002 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by ITKIB and The Wexner Center for the Arts
2001 September - Egofugal - 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul October Airmail dress Installation/ ‘Aeroplane Dress', film by Marcus Tomlinson
2001 September - Egofugal - 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Tokyo Opera City October Airmail dress Installation/ ‘Aeroplane Dress', film by Marcus Tomlinson
2001 March - Mapreading Autumn/Winter 2001 Womenswear Collection
2001 February - Century City - Tate Modern, London May After Words installation
2000 September - Ventriloquy Spring/Summer 2001 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by ITKIB and Marks & Spencer
2000 May - La Beauté - After Words installation in Avignon, France
2000 February - British Fashion Awards - Designer of the Year
2000 February - After Words Autumn/Winter 2000 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by ITKIB and Marks & Spencer
2000 February - TSE New York - Countries Autumn/Winter 2000
1999 December - Handel's Messiah, Millennial Arts Productions John Jay College Theatre, New York Directed by Eric Fraad, Costume Design by Hussein Chalayan
1999 December - Airmail Clothing - Musee de la Mode, Palais du Louvre Photography by Paul Wetherell, Graphics by Mike and Rebecca
1999 September - Before Minus Now Spring/Summer 2000 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by the Arcadia Group
1999 September - TSE New York - Shadows Spring/Summer 2000-1999 Echoform Exhibition , Photography by Marcus Tomlinson August Fast Forward, San Francisco July Atlantis Gallery, London May Festival des Jeunes Createurs, Hyeres May Exposing Meaning in Fashion Through Presentation, New York April Fast Forward, Vienna
1999 April - Echoform Autumn / Winter 1999 Tokyo
1999 April - Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset Exhibition and talk at the Kyoto Costume Institute
1999 March - British Fashion Awards - Designer of the Year
1999 February -Echoform Autumn/Winter 1999 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by the Arcadia Group
1999 February - TSE New York - The Bed Autumn/Winter 1999
1998 November - Current/See: Michael Clark Company - costume design
1998 November - TSE New York Spring/Summer 1999
1998 October - Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art & Fashion - at The Hayward January Gallery, London
1998 October - Nominated for Avant Garde Designer at the 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards
1998 September - Geotropics Spring/Summer 1999 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by the Arcadia Group
1998 April - Solo Exhibition at Colette, Paris
1998 March - TSE New York Autumn/Winter 1998
1998 February - Panoramic Autumn/Winter 1998 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by the Arcadia Group
1997 December - Talk at the Tate Gallery on the parallels between fashion, art and architecture with Zaha Hadid and Michael Bracewell
1997 September - Between Spring/Summer 1998 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Tencel and the North Cyprus Tourist Board
1997 March - Scent of Tempests Autumn/Winter 1997, sponsored by IC Holographics Nominated for the Lloyds Designer of the Year Award
1997 February - The Cutting Edge Exhibition - Victoria and Albert Museum, London May
1996 September - Lands Without Spring/Summer 1997 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Nokia
1996 August - Solo Exhibition - The Window Gallery, Prague September
1996 August - Jam - Style + Music + Media - Barbican Art Gallery exhibition September
1996 March - Still Life Autumn/Winter 1996 Womenswear Collection, Sponsored by Absolut Vodka Nominated for the Lloyds Designer of the Year Award
1995 September - Nothing/Interscope Spring/Summer 1996, sponsored by Absolut Vodka Winner of the first Absolut Vodka, Absolut Creation Award
1995 March - Along False Equator Autumn/Winter 1995 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Renault U.K. Nominated for the Lloyds Designer of the Year Award
1994 September - Temporary Interference Spring/Summer 1995 Womenswear Collection Sponsored by Jigsaw, Shown during London Fashion Week in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan
1994 March - Cartesia Autumn/Winter 1994 first solo collection Static Exhibition of whole collection, West Soho Galleries, London
1993 July - Graduated Central St. Martins BA (Honours) degree in Fashion The Tangent Flows - final year collection featured in Browns windows