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In Pictures: GFW Fashion Future Exhibition

The Graduate Fashion Foundation opened the Fashion Future Exhibition this week in Coal Drops Yard, London which showcases the work of the Class of 2021. Featuring work of students of Arts University Bournemouth, De Montfort University, Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, Northumbria University, Plymouth College of...

18 Jun 2021

Culture

Meadows Museum and Museo del Traje to collaborate on fashion exhibition

The Meadows Museum in Dallas has announced a major exhibition of Spanish fashion that will pair paintings from its collection with historic dress and accessories from the Museo del Traje (Spanish National Museum for Fashion) in Madrid. ‘Canvas and Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje’ marks the first major collaboration between...

10 Jun 2021

Culture

Dior retrospective coming to the Brooklyn Museum in September

The highly successful ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ exhibition, which debut in Paris at theMusée des Arts Décoratifsin 2017, before stopping in London and Shanghai is coming to America in September. The major retrospective of the House of Dior will run at the Brooklyn Museum in New York from September 10 to February 20, 2022, with an...

7 Jun 2021

Culture

Cruella is a fashion feast to behold

The new Disney adaption of 101 Dalmatians is a fantasia of fashion’s perennial quest for relevance and equally the making of its villain, Emma Stone, as the inimitable Cruella de Vil. It is lonely at the top, Emma Thompson’s character - the icy haute couturier Baroness - would echo. A position that requires cut-throat tenacity and unrelentless...

30 May 2021

Culture

Paul Smith exhibition to open in Nottingham Castle

Paul Smith’s exhibition with the Design Museum, which ran from 2013 to 2014, is set to go on show at Nottingham Castle this summer, as the tourist attraction reopens following a 30 million pound redevelopment. ‘Hello, My Name is Paul Smith’ will mark the first exhibition to open in the castle following the redevelopment and also marks a coming...

24 May 2021

Culture

Exploring the eternal fascination around designer Alexander McQueen

Robert Fairer is a fashion photographer known for capturing the drama backstage at John Galliano’s shows for Christian Dior, and at Marc Jacobs, which he collected in the technicolor tomes,John Galliano UnseenandMarc Jacobs Unseen. A recent addition to the series, isAlexander McQueen Unseen, featuring previously unpublished photos. John Matheson...

21 May 2021

Culture

V&A unveils Alice In Wonderland exhibition

London’s V&A Museum is celebrating one of the most iconic, imaginative and inspiring stories of all time, Alice in Wonderland in its landmark exhibition for 2021, with an immersive and fantastical journey down the rabbit hole across five Alice-inspired worlds, spanning film, performance, fashion, art, music and photography. Originally set to...

19 May 2021

Culture |In Pictures

Design Museum opens sneakers exhibition

The Design Museum’s long-awaited exhibition dedicated to sneakers is finally opening to the public after the coronavirus pandemic delayed it by a year. ‘Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street’ opens today, May 18 and runs until October 24 and explores one of the most universal design objects, bought and worn by millions of people worldwide every day...

18 May 2021

Culture

Reinvention and restlessness, fashion in the 90s

Ah, the 90s. The decade belongs to a whole other century, indeed millennium. Its image is tight and ripe for exploration unlike the first two decades of the new millennium which have been a bit messy and hard to pin down. Those of us who were adults then look back on the decade with nostalgia; those who are discovering it for the first time, are...

14 May 2021

Culture

The Costume Institute to focus on American Fashion

The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has confirmed that its next major exhibition will be a two-part show dedicated to American fashion, running from September 18, 2021, until September 5, 2022. Part One, ‘In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, will open on September 18 at the Anna Wintour Costume Center and will...

4 May 2021

Culture

Westminster Menswear Archive to stage exhibition on face coverings

Westminster Menswear Archive at the University of Westminster has announced a new exhibition revealing how face coverings have evolved in response to Covid-19 over the last 12 months. ‘Undercover – From Necessity to Luxury: The Evolution of Face Coverings during Covid-19’, opens on May 11, one year on from when the UK government first advised...

3 May 2021

Culture

Princess Diana's wedding dress to go on display at Kensington Palace

Diana, Princess of Wales’ famous wedding dress will go on display at Kensington Palace as part of an exploration of the fine art of designing for royalty, for the first time in 25 years. The temporary ‘Royal Style in the Making’ exhibition opens on June 3 in the newly-conserved Orangery at Kensington Palace and will explore the “unique...

28 Apr 2021