“It truly was by fluke,” says Debbie Dickinson of her entry into the modeling industry in the mid-70s. She had moved to NYC with the goal of becoming an actor, her mind filled with dreams of Broadway, but that all changed when scouts visiting from a Paris model agency spotted her and offered to fly her to France. “The day I landed I worked with...
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has confirmed that its spring 2023 exhibition will be dedicated to the late Karl Lagerfeld. The exhibition, entitled ‘Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty’ was announced at a press conference during Paris Fashion Week, and will showcase the late designer’s career by exploring his “creative...
30 Sept 2022
The Design Museum in London has announced an exhibition dedicated to the wrap-around garment, the sari, next year. ‘The Offbeat Sari’ exhibition will run from May 19 to September 17, 2023, celebrating what the museum calls the “radical reinvention of India’s traditional sari.” It will feature dozens of the finest saris of our time from...
28 Sept 2022
The long and heavy veils worn by royal mourners at the last state funeral of monarch King George VI in 1952 were a sign of the past at Monday’s funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The choice of veils by the Princess of Wales and Queen Consort did not entirely cover faces or heads, but instead were delicate symbols of sorrow, with lace and...
20 Sept 2022
American photographer William Klein, who established itself in fashion photography and urban photography, is died Saturday evening in Paris at the age of 96, announced Monday in a communicated his son Pierre Klein. Passed away "peacefully", William Klein revolutionized photography with his punchy images conveying the feverishness and violence of...
12 Sept 2022
French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton has published a book about its artistic director Virgil Abloh, who died on 28 November last year. The coffee table book “Louis Vuitton: Virgil Abloh” pays tribute to the appointment of Virgil Abloh as artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection in June 2018 and to his persona itself. As the...
9 Sept 2022
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has announced its roster of upcoming exhibitions to take place over the course of 2023 and 2024, including a retrospective of Iris van Herpen. Scheduled from November 29, 2023, to April 28, 2024, the Paris museum will pay tribute to the Dutch designer through an immersive exhibition revolving around eight themes...
30 Aug 2022
The Seattle NFT Museum has unveiled the topic of its upcoming exhibition, ‘Pixel and Thread’, set to take place between September 9 and November 3. “In this exhibition, we set out to highlight creators and collectives that are making bold expressions of fashion and new representations of ‘brand’ on the blockchain,” said Joana Kawahara Lino,...
29 Aug 2022
Beauty conglomerate Estée Lauder is continuing its exploration of the digital world as it announces its participation in Decentraland’s upcoming Metaverse Fashion Week, scheduled for August 24 to 28. The group will be presenting an exclusive Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP), created by identity designer Alex Box. In a release, Box said of the...
25 Aug 2022
New York Textile Month with see a special exhibition celebrating the craft of Belgian design, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano. Titled The Gift to be Simple, the exhibition features nine designers, who work with a variety of fabrics and textiles, from leather and raffia to hand-threaded linen rugs and clay lamps. Belgium has long...
23 Aug 2022
An exhibition celebrating the work of photographer Richard Avedon will debut in Milan during fashion week in September. Housed at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, the exhibition will feature over 100 of Avedon’s iconic photographs and works. Spanning a career of over sixty years, the retrospective will show images on loan from the collection of the...
16 Aug 2022
Fine jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels has announced that it will showcase a free exhibition at the Design Museum in London opening in September. ‘The Art of Movement’ exhibition will run from September 23 to October 20 and will feature almost a hundred creations from its patrimonial collection, alongside archive documents and private collector's...
10 Aug 2022
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