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In June 2008, for the first time, the Fashion Museum will be presenting its MoMu Award to an MA student at the fashion department of the Royal Academy in Antwerp. Every year from now on, this award will give a single student the opportunity to present his or her collection in an exhibition at the well respected MoMu, Antwerp’s Fashion Museum.

The 2008 MoMu Award has been given to Andrea Cammarosano, whose collections for the third Bachelor level and the first Master level are displayed in his exhibition, CRAZYSSIMO.COM.

Inspired by evolution, Andrea Cammarosano refers to his collections as serenades: “Serenada por Neanderthal” and – declarations of love for the incredible creativity of nature and mankind’s inexhaustible power of imagination.

Inspired by the structure of the Mendeljev Periodic Table, which arranges all the elements based on chemical and physical characteristics, Andrea Cammarosano has paid an inimitable tribute to metamorphosis and the potential to create.

In the same way that a blank sheet of paper can change into a drawing, simply with the help of pencils and our own inspiration, so too can our potential to explore be endless and unbounded…

“Of course, you must have thought many times,
‘How happy a chance we have had, to evolve from primordial species
into the gorgeous kinds of babes that we are today.’
Things are not that simple, however.
In nature, many different patterns led the various beings to crazy
behaviour, be they animated creatures or just silly minerals…
… but wait a minute, did I just say silly?!
Well, this is our planet, and many interesting things happen down here.
So no wonder it is such a CRAZYISSIMO place!”
Andrea Cammarosano

CRAZYSSIMO.COM
From June 12 2008 to October 12 2008.
@ MoMu, Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp
Nationalestraat 28, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
www.momu.be

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