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Willy’s World: ‘Prints, Films, a Rave and More…’

Next week, MoMu, Antwerp’s fashion museum, will unveil a major exhibition celebrating the work of photographer Willy Vanderperre.

Chloe, Robbie, i-D Magazine, #206, 2001, models: Chloe Winkel, Robbie Snelders. — Chloé, Robbie, i-D Magazine, #206, 2001, models: Chloe Winkel, Robbie Snelders. (©Willy Vanderperre)

Tim Blanks

19 April 2024

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Whatever you do, don’t call the Willy Vanderperre show that opens on April 27 at MoMu, Antwerp’s fashion museum, a retrospective. “I’m trying to avoid that word,” the photographer insists. “It feels like you’re embalming yourself. I still feel like I have loads to tell people.”

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Willy Vanderperre: ‘Youth Is an Emotion. Youth Is the Breaking Point’

In an exclusive excerpt from an interview with 1 Granary, the photographer and longtime Raf Simons collaborator Willy Vanderperre talks about creative rebellion, the power of youth and navigating the fashion industry.

Bruce Weber’s Fantasy Land

Above all, the photographer draws on his inner fantasy life to conjure the circus of marching bands, jugglers, elephants, cheerleaders, Labradors and all-American male demigods that populate his work.

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