Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor: English - Hardcover

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Kaat Debo has been the director of the Mode Museum, aka MoMu (Fashion Museum) in Antwerp since 2008. She is an expert on Belgian fashion and has curated over 20 exhibitions.

Kaat Debo has been the director of the Mode Museum, aka MoMu (Fashion Museum) in Antwerp since 2008. She is an expert on Belgian fashion and has curated over 20 exhibitions.

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor at MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp, this book celebrates the craftsmanship and creativity of make-up and hair artists: the painters of fashion.

Belgian artist James Ensor's ideas about masquerade, vanity, seduction, deception and the transient are explored from a contemporary perspective. Throughout history, make-up has been viewed with suspicion and compared to the wearing of a mask: a mask to hide one's true face. Ensor’s work prompts a number of universal questions:

• Why do we wear masks?
• Why do we fear visible ageing?
• How do we navigate ever-changing beauty ideals?

This book investigates the profound connections between make-up and the many facets of our humanity.