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Chanel heads up V&A’s exhibition schedule for 2023

The V&A Museum has unveiled its 2023 programme across its sites in London and Dundee, featuring exhibitions focused on Chanel, Tartan, divas and plastic. At V&A South Kensington, the highlight of the schedule is the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel. The exhibit will chart the designer’s...

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London’s V&A places spotlight on menswear in 2022

The V&A Museum in London has unveiled further details about its major menswear exhibition, ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ launching next year that will feature looks by Harris Reed, Gucci, Grace Wales Bonner, Rick Owens, JW Anderson, Comme des Garçons, Raf Simons, and Craig Green. Opening March 2022, ‘Fashioning Masculinities:...

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V&A Museum plans African fashion exhibition for 2022

London’s V&A Museum has announced that its major fashion exhibition opening in 2022 will celebrate the “irresistible creativity, ingenuity and unstoppable global impact of contemporary African fashions”. The exhibition, entitled ‘Africa Fashion’ will be curated by Dr Christine Checinska, the museum’s new curator of African and African Diaspora...

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First-ever Birkin bag to go on display in new V&A exhibition

The V&A Museum’s next major fashion exhibition will be dedicated to bags and will feature the first-ever made Hermès Birkin bag owned by Jane Birkin, alongside Mulberry handbags worn by Kate Moss and Alexa Chung. The ‘Bags: Inside Out’ exhibition opening on November 21 will showcase almost 300 pieces and will be the UK’s most comprehensive...

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V&A launches curator tour of Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk exhibition

The V&A museum has launched a series of five films on YouTube that takes viewers on a personal, 30-minute behind-the-scenes tour of its Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk exhibition, which is currently closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic. Curator Anna Jackson guides viewers through the exhibition spaces, providing a personal insight into...

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V&A opens Kimono fashion exhibition

The V&A Museum in London is placing a spotlight on Japan’s most famous fashion garment, the Kimono with its latest fashion exhibition. Entitled ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’, the exhibition marks Europe’s first major exhibit on the kimono, revealing the sartorial and social significance of kimono from the 1660s to the present day, both in Japan and...

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JW Anderson designer named trustee of V&A museum board

Jonathan Anderson, best known for his men's and womenswear label JW Anderson, has been appointed to a trustee position on the board of London's Victoria & Albert Museum. Along with two others, Anderson was appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May for a four-year term. Anderson launched menswear under the JW Anderson label in 2008, before...

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London's V&A Museum to stage 'reimagined' hit Dior expo

London's Victoria and Albert Museum said Sunday it plans a reprise in 2019 of a Christian Dior retrospective that last year drew record numbers to the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris. The show, to run from February 2 to July 14, promises to be "the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior," the V&A...

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Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion opens in London

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has launched its latest fashion exhibition dedicated to Cristóbal Balenciaga and the continuing influence of the Spanish designer on the current fashion industry, to coincide with the centenary of the fashion house’s opening in San Sebastian and the 80th anniversary of his move to Paris. Showcasing more...

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V&A to present history of underwear

London’s V&A Museum is placing underwear under the spotlight for its next fashion exhibition, Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, which will run from April next year until March, 2017 featuring more than 200 examples of underwear for men and women. The concept of the exhibition will be to document the story of underwear from the 18th...

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Introducing Dot to Dot London

A new weekend showroom is launching next year February, that aims to bring together 14 British independent children's brands. Named Dot to Dot London, the debut show is set to take place on the 8th to the 9th of February at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London. “At present the UK childrenswear market is incredibly competitive, and for small...

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Meadham Kirchhoff to exhibit at V&A Museum

London Fashion Week label Meadham Kirchhoff is to be the subject of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s next Fashion in Motion Series. Following in the footsteps of Giles Deacon, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, the design duo will host four free catwalk shows next month. Taking place on December 6, the initiative aims to bring fashion to...