Edith Dekyndt x Cristóbal Balenciaga: The Fabric Decides

In the first room, a piece of red velvet sits inside a freezer, changing slowly as it is kept there. Nearby is a Balenciaga silk evening gown that looks slashed with a knife. Nobody cut it: over the decades the silk dried out and split by itself.

That is the idea behind the title, Balenciaga's own line that the fabric decides. You walk in under a long veil Dekyndt made after studying the house's Paris archives, stretched across the whole entrance. Three rooms follow, pairing archive couture, including a dress form of the kind he built clients' clothes on, with Dekyndt's work. One room holds her notebooks, among them one from a 1980s visit to the Prado, whose Velázquez and Goya also fed Balenciaga's designs.

It's in Bozar's Circuit Antichambres, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00. Tickets are €10, €7 under 26, free under 18, and some slots already show as sold out. The ticket also covers Basil Al-Rawi's House of Memory that day.