Exciting & Original Fashions - Hyper Hyper
Poster
1982 (published)
1982 (published)
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A poster printed in 1982 to advertise the launch of the Kensington High Street designer collective Hyper-Hyper, showing a man and a woman fragmented by diagonal stripes in alternating pink and white. The woman wears a black blouse and a bustle skirt printed with winged skeletons and broken glass, the man wears sunglasses, a leather jacket and corduroy trousers.
Object details
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| Title | Exciting & Original Fashions - Hyper Hyper |
| Materials and techniques | Printed poster |
| Brief description | Poster advertising the launch of 'Hyper Hyper' featuring models wearing garments designed by Sarah Whitworth. London, 1982. |
| Physical description | A poster printed in 1982 to advertise the launch of the Kensington High Street designer collective Hyper-Hyper, showing a man and a woman fragmented by diagonal stripes in alternating pink and white. The woman wears a black blouse and a bustle skirt printed with winged skeletons and broken glass, the man wears sunglasses, a leather jacket and corduroy trousers. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sarah Whitworth Stuart |
| Object history | Donated by Sarah Whitworth Stuart, the designer of the woman's ensemble. At the same time, the donor gave a version of the woman's outfit to the Textiles and Fashion collection (T.22-24-2012) which includes a skirt and blouse identical to those on the poster. This extremely rare poster was intended to be used on the London Underground to promote the new designer market-cum-collective Hyper Hyper which opened on Kensington High Street. Sarah Whitworth (who traded under the title "Deadlier than the Male" from 1984) was one of the founder-members of the collective, specialising in seductive corset-based designs with a strong Gothic influence. - Daniel Milford-Cottam (May 2013) |
| Bibliographic reference | Sonnet Stanfill. 80s Fashion: From Club to Catwalk. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, June 2013, p.15 (illustration 6) |
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| Accession number | E.575-2012 |
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| Record created | July 13, 2012 |
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