Go As You Please - Ann-Sofie Back 1998–2018

Ann-Sofie Back received her master’s degree from Central St Martin’s in 1998. Since then, she has made collections under her own name until 2018. Her collections have been shown at fashion weeks in London and Paris and sold in stores worldwide. Ann-Sofie Back’s design archive has been kept almost completely intact since she began designing in 1998. Everything has been saved and now takes its place in Liljevalchs + as a form of prospective-retrospective for her long and distinguished career in the fashion world.

Ann-Sofie Back’s work has been inspired by stereotypical notions of beauty, taste, femininity, social phenomena and fashion that creates a tool for status, that is, the transformative properties of fashion. Her work has been shown in prominent museums and galleries around the world.

A book covering Ann-Sofie Back’s entire career is also being compiled for the exhibition, with sketches, catwalk images, campaigns, press clips and exhibition invitations. It also features various styling assignments by Ann-Sofie Back for, among others, Self Service, Purple and Dazed. The catalogue also includes texts from interviews and articles.