Do you remember the king who wore a "non-existent fashion item"?
In 2025, the King's tailors are back, but this time their target is no longer the King, but your wardrobe!
V.galleria Circular Fashion Exhibition: A magical event that combines fairy tales with contemporary art!
This is not just an exhibition, but also a humorous performance art experiment. Let's prove together that old clothes are not just clothes; they can also be art, they can tell stories.
It could even be... the Emperor's New Clothes.
The Quiet Beginning
Fashion is the invisible language of culture, identity, and desire, transcending time and space to silently shape our world.
Exhibition Dates | January 11, 2025 – February 10, 2025
The Mask and Truth
Fashion that fails to be alluring cannot be considered successful.
Exhibition Period | February 11, 2025 – March 11, 2025
Fairy Tales and Reality
We relinquished seemingly weightless freedom in exchange for the constraints that romantic life imposes on our souls.
Exhibition Period | March 21 - May 29, 2025
Deconstruction & Reconstruction
The light of the era is reflected in the cracks of the glass.
Exhibition Period | June 11, 2025 ~ August 30, 2025
A Toast to Courage
A revolution in clothing identity – giving clothing a new self and value, breaking boundaries, identities, and inertia.
Exhibition Dates | November 11, 2025 – December 12, 2025
Fashion is like a magical transformation, seamlessly blending ritual and image reshaping; on this journey, we explore the balance between beauty and sustainability.
When inner needs resonate with outward appearances, we will experience true confidence and ease.
V.galleria takes clothing that is no longer needed as its starting point and sincerely invites every participant to create together and reflect on the essence of fashion and beauty in daily life.
This exhibition takes the perspective of the tailor in The Emperor's New Clothes and reinterprets the characters and stories in classic fairy tales. Through the five senses, it takes visitors from the unseen to the re-seen, using classic stories such as The Emperor's New Clothes, The Girl in Red Shoes, Snow White, The Little Prince, The Frog Prince, and The Little Mermaid.
When we gaze into the mirror and rediscover those invisible yet real and pure images, we begin to weave a symphony of beauty and sustainability, and embark on a journey to explore and create a blueprint for a diverse and fashionable future.
Fashion is the invisible language of culture, identity, and desire, transcending time and space to silently shape our world.
Fashion is the unseen language of culture, identity, and desire, timelessly shaping our world.
This chapter begins in an intangible way, introducing the "Nude Story Series" of French-based artist Lin Liling from the perspective of being unclothed, showcasing a confident posture through the brushstrokes of classical oil painting.
The Chinese-American visual artist team duturu presents an invisible interweaving and interaction between the human body and the viewer. The dynamic movement and dance postures of the audience cause the images in the frame to rotate with each change, thus creating a vibrant and constantly changing dynamic artwork.
Other exhibits, through the clothing and fabrics donated by the donors, gradually reveal diverse creative styles and expose the profound connection and stories between the body and clothing.
Fashion that fails to be alluring cannot be considered successful.
What is the cost of a lie? It is not that we mistake lies for truth; the real danger lies in the fact that if we hear enough lies,
we will eventually be unable to distinguish the truth. What can we do then?
The only choice is to abandon the pursuit of truth and instead comfort ourselves with fabricated stories.
The "pure white" we know is actually made from chemical fluorescent agents. And the most sacred white in the world comes from the purity of light.
Those white garments no longer needed become silent backgrounds in the space. Through the lens of education, industry, and design, we explore the practice of sustainable fashion. At the same time,
we are honored to invite The Fig Tree's perfumer Jenny Liao to present the invisible fashion of scent,
delicately distinguishing the subtle differences between chemical and natural fragrances. Light, Air, Water, the elements of living.
We relinquished seemingly weightless freedom in exchange for the constraints that romantic life imposes on our souls.
Flip Romantic Lace
Princess Diana walked down the aisle in an eight-meter-long antique lace wedding gown, equating lace with "romance." However, just like the rebellious soul beneath her gentle exterior, can lace also transcend the framework of femininity?
This exhibition invites Zhang Kechen to explore the deeper power of lace using the mallet lace technique.
It originates from the resilience of rural women and also embodies the fearlessness of monarchs. In the interweaving of threads and gaps, lace is not merely decoration, but a symbol of femininity that can be both sweet and strong.
Lace & Power｜Elegance as Authority A Symbol of Elegant Authority In the 16th century, lace sparked a glamorous trend among European nobility. Delicate, misty threads wove intricate patterns, and amidst the clinking of glasses and the revelry of banquets, lace shimmered everywhere. Between dresses. Especially the famous Ruff collar of Elizabeth I , with its exaggerated and gorgeous layered design, not only symbolizes wealth and status, but also highlights the wearer's noble demeanor and symbolizes power.
Create in the dim light, reconstruct in the cracks.
Every shard of broken glass represents the future we've strung together with our own hands.
When observation transforms into creation, fashion is no longer just a trend, but a choice—a gentle yet resolute act of restoration.
Melted and blown at high temperatures, brushed glass possesses a deeper fragility and strength than its surface suggests.
This exhibition invites glass artist Belle Tsai to compose a poem about form, reconstruction, and rebirth through four series of works.
From the environmental lament hidden in the ocean's tears to the personal emotions stirred by fragile connections.
Memory, from the deconstruction and reconstruction of glass, to the re-examination of the essence of containers, to the cracks and transformations described in the rebirth of brokenness, is a journey about breaking and rebirth, and also a poem written for glass.
When "sustainability" is no longer just a popular slogan, but becomes a fundamental issue for the global fashion and design industry to face the future,
A contemporary exhibition centered on the re-creation of recycled glass, focusing on material reconstruction, technological translation, and aesthetic reconstruction.
This exhibition, through the curatorial perspectives of "deconstruction" and "reconstruction," cleverly engages in a dialogue between glass and fashion vocabulary, initiating a rethinking of the life of materials, cultural regeneration, and beauty.
Starting with discarded or broken glassware, the artist gives each piece a new life through processes such as melting, cutting, grinding, and polishing.
Just as haute couture uses recycled fabrics to reconstruct the language of fashion, glass art reveals its posture and emotion through light and shadow. Like clothing, the exhibits have clear lines and textures, carrying individuality, memories, and reflections, redefining the meaning of "waste" and the form of "beauty."
"Deconstruction and Reconstruction" not only demonstrates how glass material has evolved through design practice to achieve contemporary expression, but also represents a profound reflection :
When creation no longer relies on "new" materials, but instead seeks possibilities from things that have been discarded, can we redefine the meaning of creation ?
The echo of hammering resonates like the heartbeat of the earth; fire and water chant the breathing of the seasons.
Leaf pigments slowly sink into the fabric like a hymn under the sunlight, each fiber a vessel of time, holding silent traces.
In this natural ritual, the garments complete their transformation and whisper to us: courage grows quietly in the shadows, turning calmly toward the dawn.
The Metamorphosis of Garments
"When clothing is given new materials and language, it breaks free from its old shell, just like the transformations in life."
The colors of the plants seep into the fabric with the rhythm of the hammering, leaving their mark like a heartbeat; the fire and water of cooking allow the colors to slowly release and settle, like breathing finding a stable frequency.
Clothes transform in the rhythm of nature, teaching us that courage is not about making a fuss, but about quiet confidence.
In the final chapter, "The Celebration of Courage," courage is seen as an attitude of existence. Here, courage is not a reactionary force of resistance, but a harmony that resonates with the natural field.
It is not a chaotic disturbance, but a constant cycle of return. It is a stable state that allows the body to resonate with the world.
The transformation of clothing's identity is a reflection of this courage. It is no longer merely an object to cover the body, but a mark of coexistence with nature, a trace left by time and craftsmanship, and a symbol of self-awakening.
When viewers touch these fabrics and participate in the dyeing and impregnation process, it's as if they are personally imprinting the energy of nature into their lives.
Ultimately, as clothing completes its identity revolution, we also learn to wear our most authentic selves and step into our own grand celebration.
The legacy of invisible fashion is not the illusion of trends, but a posture of existence—confidently being yourself. This is the greatest courage.
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