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Design Museum spotlights British talent with NewGen exhibition

NewGen, the fashion talent incubator from the British Fashion Council, which has supported more than 300 designers, is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the Design Museum in London as part of the initiative’s 30th anniversary. ‘Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion,’ which opens on September 16, is unlike many other fashion exhibitions, as...

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V&A celebrates Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel with new fashion exhibition

London’s V&A Museum is celebrating Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s pioneering approach to fashion design with a new exhibition charting how the French couturière paved the way for a new elegance. ‘Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto,’ opens on September 16 and features more than 200 objects, many of which are seen together for the first time,...

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LCF to host exhibition tracing the social impact of fashion

London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London (UAL) has announced a new, free fashion exhibition to coincide with the opening of its new, single-site campus at East Bank on Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this October. ‘Designed for Life,’ will run from October 2 to January 19, 2024, and will explore LCF’s decades-long...

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The Blonds at centre of newly launched SCAD Fash Museum exhibition

The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD Fash) has unveiled a new exhibition at its Atlanta Museum of Fashion + Film, this time centred around New York luxury brand The Blonds. With over 80 design creations on display, ‘The Blonds: Glamour, Fashion, Fantasy’ looks into the label’s most notable looks worn by an array of celebrities, including...

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The MET’s Costume Institute to house exhibition celebrating women designers

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET) has revealed details of its upcoming ‘Women Dressing Women’ exhibition, set to take place at The Costume Institute from December 7, 2023, to March 3, 2024. Comprising around 80 objects by over 70 makers, the exhibition looks to celebrate the creativity and legacy of women designers, while also tracing a...

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Grace Wales Bonner to curate an exhibition at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has announced that London-based fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner will curate an exhibition opening in November. Wales Bonner will bring together 50 artworks from MoMA’s collection that explore forms of black style, gesture, performance, and sounds of the African diaspora as part of the museum’s ‘...

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s Coronation outfits go on display

The Coronation outfits worn by King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6 have gone on display as part of a special exhibition as part of the summer opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The outfits, which will be on display until September 24, offer the first chance for the public to see the royal ensembles up-close, alongside some...

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Esmod showcases students' end-of-year collections in an exhibition in Paris

From now until 8 July, the creations of fashion design students from Esmod's Paris, Lyon and Roubaix campuses will be on show at the Appart Renoma in the french capital. While Studio Berçot has just announced that it will be closing its doors for good, the Esmod group, which recently boasted the title of top French school in the international...

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The Museum at FIT to host ‘Food & Fashion’ exhibition

The Museum at FIT (MFIT) has unveiled that it will be hosting a ‘Food & Fashion’ exhibition exploring the impact of food and food culture on fashion design. Co-curated by Melissa Marra-Alvarez, MFIT’s curator of education and research, and Elizabeth Way, the museum’s associate curator of costume, over 80 garments and accessories will be...

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Design Museum to celebrate more than 300 young designers

The Design Museum in London has revealed it will showcase “trailblazing fashion designs” celebrating more than 300 young designers from the British Fashion Council’s NewGen programme in its new fashion exhibition opening in September. ‘Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion,’ will run from September 16 to February 11, 2024, and will showcase London’s...

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In Pictures: V&A prepares for Diva exhibition launch

The term ‘diva’ typically refers to a female, or sometimes male, personality that has achieved astronomical success, and has become known for both their abilities and their fashionable appearance, both of which have often made waves across industries. It is these individuals that are set to be celebrated in the latest exhibition coming to the...

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Design Museum celebrates the sari with a new fashion exhibition

The first large-scale exhibition in the UK examining the contemporary Indian sari has opened at the Design Museum in London. ‘The Offbeat Sari,' runs until September 17, and brings together more than 60 examples of modern saris on loan from designers and studios across India, including the first-ever sari worn at the Met Gala in 2022 and saris...