VANTAE / HOUSE OF FORM & MEMORY
Every collection is a chapter.
VANTAE collections explore memory, identity, absence, architecture, movement, and the relationship between the body and the spaces it occupies.
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4 ENTRIES / CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER · UNDATED RECORDS LAST
COLLECTION 011998 / PUBLIC
VANTAE / COLLECTION 01
1998 · 6 GARMENTS
HAN VAE-RIN
Things that remain after someone leaves.
The emotional architecture of an empty apartment after a relationship ends. It is not about dramatic heartbreak. It is about absence.
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THE RETURN COLLECTION2018 / INCOMPLETE
VANTAE / THE RETURN COLLECTION
2018 / OFF-CALENDAR · 17 GARMENTS
DESIGNER: UNDISCLOSED
VANTAE returned unexpectedly in 2018. There was no announcement. At midnight, the House website appeared with:
“THE HOUSE REMEMBERS.”
The collection contained exactly seventeen garments. No designer was credited. The final garment bore similarities to Han Vae-rin’s unfinished 2010 piece.
DESIGNER UNDISCLOSED / ARCHIVE INCOMPLETE
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