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“With the stabilization, the consumer climate is currently almost exactly at the previous year’s level. This is also good news for the retail sector with regard to Christmas spending… Consumers are in a similar shopping mood as last year,” Rolf Buerkl, head of consumer climate at NIM, said.
The company logo for the Dutch design team of Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, who call themselves “fashion artists,” is a wax seal bearing the monogram V&R. They introduced it in 2000, seven years after the launch of their label Viktor&Rolf, and it recalls the wax drips and signets that in centuries past secured folded letters.
The logo suggests that Viktor and Rolf are sending us messages, not with words on a page but through sculptural creations that push out of the atelier and into visual culture.
Last year saw their first major museum retrospective, “Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements.”
Presented by the Kunsthalle München, in Germany, and organized by the Canadian curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot in collaboration with Maison Viktor&Rolf, that show has now arrived at its exclusive U.S. venue, the High Museum of Art.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.