{"id":15409,"date":"2017-02-07T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2017-04-03T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T15:55:49","slug":"artist-bjarne-melgaard-to-give-away-personal-collection-of-designer-fashion-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/artist-bjarne-melgaard-to-give-away-personal-collection-of-designer-fashion-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Bjarne Melgaard to Give Away Personal Collection of Designer Fashion for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not a drill. If you didn’t have Valentine’s Day plans, well now you do. Next Tuesday, on February 14th, artist Bjarne Melgaard will be giving away his personal collection of designer fashion and streetwear FREE<\/a> of charge to the public, on a first come, first serve basis.\u00a0The environment is set to purposefully “facilitate an emotional and physical purge in which the artist will give away the indefensible quantity of designer fashion and high-end streetwear he has amassed over the years.”<\/p>\n

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In groups of 100, shoppers will have just 15 minutes to fill their custom MELGAARD garbage bags with as much as they can carry. So what’s up for grabs? You can score pieces from Comme des Gar\u00e7on, Eckhaus Latta, HUF, Issey Miyake, Jeremy Scott, Lanvin, Margiela, Raf Simons, Stussy, Supreme, and more.<\/p>\n

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Coinciding\u00a0with New York Fashion Week, The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment<\/a>, <\/i>Bjarne’s upcoming\u00a0exhibition, opening February 16,\u00a0is multi-site, multi-night, culmination of his ongoing \u2018fashion\u2019 project, which includes the debut of the artist’s streetwear line MELGAARD, which will also be included in the 15-minute shopping spree.<\/p>\n

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According to\u00a0Red Bull Arts New York,\u00a0<\/strong>“The launch of the Melgaard brand suggests the retirement of Bjarne Melgaard as a fine artist, abandoning the humiliating context of the exhibition platform for the much worse context of cult streetwear: a market pretending to be a community, pretending to be a violent assault on reproduction.”<\/p>\n

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The project is\u00a0centered around\u00a0Red Bull Arts New York,<\/a>\u00a0which Melgaard and company have transformed into a “multilevel psycho-pathological department store.” New York-based gallery, Gavin Brown Enterprise<\/a>\u00a0will function as the jewelry department and will play host to the American launch of his collaboration with jeweler Bj\u00f8rg Nordli-Mathisen (BJ\u00d8RG)<\/a> on view from February 11 to February 19<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Full details:<\/div>\n

BJARNE MELGAARD:
\nThe Casual Pleasure of Disappointment<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, February 14 – $500K Designer Fashion Giveaway
\n5PM to 8PM – Open to the public, so we suggest getting there early<\/p>\n

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Red Bull Arts New York<\/a>
\n220 W. 18th Street 10011
\nNYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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