Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

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SHOWcabinet: Maison Martin Margiela
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1/12.13

SHOWcabinet: Maison Martin Margiela

Another of SHOWstudios engaging installations this time around the theme of memory linking Margiela's "replica" scents with artworks inspired by same. A selection of artists invited to participate with related drawings, a scent bar plus objects and garments from the current season make for an interesting take on museum presentation.

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"I feel like an artist when I imagine the perfume I need to make. In fact, I constantly juggle with the two standpoints. If perfume is first and foremost a creation of the mind, it cannot actually be created without the mastery of true skill."
- Jean-Claude Ellena, 2011, The Diary Of A Nose