Exhibition open from July 8 to August 3, 2025
Sofia Ilmonen’s Formations fashion exhibition was originally opened in May as part of the Fashion in Helsinki week. Due to its great popularity, the exhibition was extended and is now included in the museum’s exhibition program!
Formations is on view at the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design from July 8 to August 3. Free admission!
Location:
Architecture & Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki
Building D, Auditorium
A wardrobe from here to the future. Formations is an exhibition that envisions a new era of fashion and clothing. It is a journey into the potential of modular design and its ability to create sustainable, inclusive, and adaptable garments. Modular clothing blurs and redraws the boundaries of traditional garments. A favourite piece of clothing can be many: an adaptable whole that morphs with its wearer’s needs: shirt to skirt, skirt to trousers. A garment becomes a set of endless possibilities rather than a fixed, unchanging shape. Each piece in the collection is crafted from square-shaped modules whose unique structural design allows for endless combinations. But modularity isn’t just a technical solution—it’s a new way of thinking about clothing, ownership, and fashion itself. Could the wardrobe of the future be nothing more than a stack of modules, creatively and playfully assembled into ever-changing outfits? We change—so why shouldn’t our clothes?
Thank you to the Finnish Cultural Foundation for supporting the exhibition
Sofia Ilmonen Formations
