Simon costin biography

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  • Simon Costin studied Theatre Design and History of Art at Wimbledon School of Art. Since leaving college in the mid 80's, Simon has worked internationally.
  • Simon Costin is an international art director and recently curator.

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    Inside the Magic Mind of London&#;s Most Surreal Set Designer

    Simon Costin fryst vatten a set designer, an artist, a jewelry-maker, a curator, a filmmaker and, most recently, a museum director. Born in London, he completed a BA in theatre design at Wimbledon School of the Arts, to which he credits his ability to work through both a creative and technical lens. From Hermes to H&M, Costin has deep and diverse ties within the fashion industry, including a long-term collaboration with Alexander McQueen which ran from the 90s until his death in He&#;s also designed sets and micro-worlds for shoots and shows alike, collaborating with photographers and designers like Tim Walker, Paolo Roversi, and Gareth Pugh, and created landscapes for Givenchy, Lanvin, and the like. Costin has both exhibited within and curated shows at leading cultural centres such as the ICA in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Galerie Patricia Dorfmann in Paris – and places off the grid, like a f

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    Simon Costin

    Simon Costin studied Theatre Design and History of Art at Wimbledon School of Art. Since leaving college in the mid 80's, Simon has worked internationally as an art director and recently curator.

    He is known for the conceptually ambitious nature of his designs and collaborated extensively with Alexander McQueen both on McQueen's own line and Givenchy ready-to-wear and haute couture shows. His client list includes Hermès, Lanvin, Kim Jones, Maison Martin Margiela, Alice Temperley, Stella McCartney, Gareth Pugh and Luella Bartley. He has been a long-term collaborator with Tim Walker.

    Costin's artwork has been displayed in many exhibitions at venues as diverse as a forest in Argyll, the ICA in London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His life long passion for folklore has resulted in the launch of the Museum of British Folklore, which aims to establish the UK's first ever centre devoted to celebrating and researching the UK's rich

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    "Memento Mori"

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    Simon Costin's work reflects his interest in decadent literature of the late nineteenth century. His use of taxidermy, seemingly retrieved from some obsessional collector's cabinet, and his incorporation of materials evocative of the late Victorian cult of mourning are poised between poetic morbidity and necromantic glamour. Unlike Damien Hirst's laboratory-like presentation of antiseptic carcasses, Costin's pieces have a fetishistic and totemic allusiveness. The pronounced Gothic aspect of his work is underscored by the carefully crafted boxes in which his pieces are presented. Each one is inscribed by hand, not with the clinical nomenculture of the collecter/amateur but with the subjective introspection of the romantic.

    "The 'Memento Mori' necklace was inspired by À Rebours. In the novel there is a description of an extravagant dinner t

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