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Design Pataki Foundation to showcase Indian craft at Kyōto YouMe Triennale

The Design Pataki Foundation, an Indian non-profit organization focused on craft and sustainability, will present 'The Future Is Handmade' at the inaugural Kyōto YouMe Triennale in Kyoto, Japan. The curated exhibition of contemporary Indian art, design and craft will take place from October 9, 2026 to October 18, 2026. Curated by Esha Gupta,...

Fairs

Jill 2026: Jean-pierre blanc and WSN detail the programme for a new hybrid trade show

As the lines between trade shows, exhibitions and public events blur, the Jill trade show, presented by WSN and conceived by Jean-Pierre Blanc, is focusing on a cross-disciplinary model. Beyond its fashion and accessories offering, the event is supported by a cultural programme and a network of partner venues. This new trade show marks the...

Culture

Milan dedicates an exhibition to Salvador Dalí's relationship with fashion

Milan - From Thursday, the Palazzo Reale in Milan will present an unprecedented exhibition dedicated to Spanish icon Salvador Dalí's experiments with fashion. The exhibition highlights the surrealist artist's talent for integrating fashion into his work, contributing to its evolution and creating his own “uniform”. More than 200 garments,...

Culture

Pierre Cardin museum brings designer's futurist style to Venice

Hundreds of style-setting creations from the late designer Pierre Cardin will fill his Venice palazzo later this month in a new museum celebrating the cutting-edge vision of fashion's futurist. A costume ball Thursday evening at Cardin's Venetian home of nearly 40 years, the Palazzo Bragadin, will help kick off the museum opening, scheduled for...

Culture

The Design Museum to celebrate contemporary Black design this autumn

The Design Museum in London has announced it will open an exhibition exploring “some of the most innovative contemporary Black designers working right now,” including fashion designers Bianca Saunders, Saul Nash, and Samuel Ross. ‘The Nue Black Aesthetic’ will run from November 5 to August 2027 and will feature 16 designers, which the museum...

Culture

Azzedine Alaïa: 'Sculpting Fashion' Exhibition Details Revealed

Almost 10 years after his death in 2017, the couturier Azzedine Alaïa is the subject of his first major retrospective in the US, according to a report by WWD. From November 21, 2026, to April 11, 2027, the Legion of Honor art museum in San Francisco will host an exhibition dedicated to his work, organised with the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in...

Culture

Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell to be celebrated in new exhibition

The Fashion and Textile Museum in London has announced its next exhibition will celebrate Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, who became known as one of the most influential creative and romantic partnerships of ‘Swinging London’ in the 1960s and early 1970s. The ‘Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell’ exhibition will run from October 2, 2026, to April 27,...

Culture

The Hague's Kunstmuseum to collaborate with Barbican London on 'Future Fashion' exhibition

Kunstmuseum Den Haag will open the “Future Fashion” exhibition early next year, focusing on the future of fashion. The exhibition will showcase how contemporary designers are addressing challenges like overconsumption, pollution and climate change by experimenting with new materials and production methods. “Future Fashion” is a collaboration...

Fashion

Fashion's mystery man Margiela sells off his archives

After spending his career scrupulously avoiding being photographed, star Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela has decided to open up and sell off part of his personal archives. Fans of the 69-year-old trailblazer, who retired in 2009, will be able to snap up artefacts ranging from sketches to one of his white work coats at an auction in...

Culture

Exhibition in Nice explores the links between Matisse and Yves Saint-Laurent

Nice - Although they never met, Henri Matisse and Yves Saint-Laurent both found similar ways of approaching colour, light and materials. An exhibition in Nice now highlights the close links between the two. “Beauty, fashion and happiness”, a nod to Charles Baudelaire whom they both read, is on display until September 28 at the Musée Matisse in...

Culture

Paolo Roversi exhibit, promoted by Marta Ortega's foundation (Inditex), opens in Spain

Madrid – Furthering its goal of becoming an increasingly valuable part of Galicia's cultural scene and a global player in fashion, 'Doubts' opened to the public in A Coruña this Saturday, June 20. Under this title, the Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation (MOP Foundation) has organised a stunning retrospective on the work of celebrated Italian...

Culture

Palais Galliera showcases masculinization of womenswear in the 19th century

This autumn, from September 26, 2026, to February 14, 2027, Palais Galliera presents the exhibition "A wardrobe of one's own. Dissident femininities in the 19th century". This event highlights a major historical phenomenon: the appropriation of masculine dress codes by women in the 19th century. An exploration of clothing and photographic...