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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…
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Costume Art at the Met
Fashion has spent a long time negotiating its place inside the museum. Costume Art, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 10, 2026, begins from a different position. Rather than asking whether clothing deserves to stand beside…
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Inside Dior’s Grammar of Forms
Most runway shows end the moment the final look disappears backstage. The applause fades, guests leave their seats and, within minutes, the collection begins a new life online through thousands of carefully selected images. What remains is often a sequence…
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The V&A exhibition – Schiaparelli effect
At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art arrives at a moment when fashion is increasingly expected to justify its place within culture. More than a retrospective of one of the twentieth century’s most unconventional designers,…