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Mise en Scène: Fashion in Focus
From the carefully composed portraits of the Belle Époque to the provocative imagery of the late twentieth century, fashion photography has shaped far more than the way clothing is presented. At the Textile Museum St. Gallen, Mise en Scène explores…
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The Antwerp Six, forty years later
In 1986, six young Belgian designers travelled to London with their individual collections and returned with an identity that would follow them for the rest of their careers. Four decades later, a major exhibition in Antwerp revisits their extraordinary emergence,…
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Gianni Versace in His Own Time
Gianni Versace had a particular talent for bringing together things that were not necessarily expected to coexist. Greek antiquity appeared alongside pop imagery, Baroque ornament found its way onto silk shirts and metallic fabrics were worked into dresses that moved…
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Thai silk and royal diplomacy
Queen Sirikit’s wardrobe brought Thai silk, historic forms and Paris couture into the visual language of twentieth-century diplomacy. La Mode en Majesté looks beyond royal style to a period in which clothing became closely involved in how modern Thailand represented…
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Alaïa, African influences
At the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, a new exhibition traces the presence of Africa across decades of the couturier’s work, revealing an influence carried through childhood memories, materials, colour and some of his most recognisable experiments with the body.…
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Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
Few designers have tested the limits of haute couture as persistently as Iris van Herpen. Since establishing her Amsterdam maison in 2007, she has developed a practice in which fashion moves through architecture, biology, engineering, contemporary art and science, bringing…