Sofia Ilmonen: Twelve / Twelve 11.9.–28.11.2027

Fashion continues to be largely based on predetermined sizes, modes of use and the constant production of new products. At the same time, both garments and their wearers are often expected to remain unchanged. Sofia Ilmonen is a fashion designer whose work is based on a new way of creating clothing: a structure that enables continual transformation.

The garments presented in the exhibition start from a different premise. A garment does not need to be final, nor does the wearer need to remain the same to continue using it. A modular structure allows the garment to be taken apart, altered and reassembled. The collection proposes an alternative way of thinking about clothing, not as a finished and permanent object but as an open structure capable of adapting to changes in the body, use and the passage of time.