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Barbican opens first major fashion exhibition in nearly a decade

London’s Barbican has opened its first large-scale fashion exhibition in eight years, inspired by the “rebellious, playful and regenerative potentials of dirt and decay,” as it looks to reaffirm its commitment to fashion within its visual art programming, building on the success of exhibitions such as ‘The House of Viktor & Rolf’ in 2008 and...

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Barbican exhibition to examine vulgarity in fashion

London’s Barbican is set to host a new fashion exhibition this autumn, ‘The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined’, which will feature pieces from leading modern and contemporary designers including Christian Dior, Pam Hogg, Chloé, Christian Lacroix, Moschino, Prada, Philip Treacy, Viktor and Rolf, Louis Vuitton and Vivienne Westwood. The exhibition will...

Design

Barbican to host Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition

An exhibition devoted to French couturier, Jean Paul Gaultier is coming to London next year. The display will be held at the Barbican in April 2014 as part of the exhibitions international tour. Entitled ‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk’ the exhibition will display more than 140 of the designers...

Design

Barbican to exhibit 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

The Barbican Art Gallery is to host Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present. Curated by the eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, the exhibition explores the unique...

Fashion

Viktor&Rolf at Barbican

This summer, Dutch design duo Viktor&Rolf will treat us to the exhibition ‘The House of Viktor&Rolf’. The retrospective will be presented at the Barbican Art Gallery from 18th June until 14th September 2008. It’s for the very first time the designers are exhibiting in the UK. On the Barbican Art Gallery website they are referred to as ‘radical...