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Metropolitan Museum announces spring 2020 Costume Institute exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host "About Time: Fashion and Duration" for its annual spring Costume Institute exhibition. On view from May 7, 2020 through September 7, the show will also aid in the museum's ongoing celebration of its 150th anniversary, as it illustrates 150 years of fashion history. “This exhibition will consider the...

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IED and the Lucerne School of Art and Design exhibit at Milan Jewelry Week

The European Institute of Design (Istituto Europeo di Design or IED) has always been involved in promoting the culture of jewelry design through spreading research, aesthetics and creativity as well as supporting young designers. It is with this spirit that IED is presenting a varied program during Milan Jewelry Week from a goldsmith’s workshop...

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What will humans wear on Mars?

The ‘Moving to Mars’ exhibition, which opens today, October 18, at London’s Design Museum, explores humans ambitious to live on the red planet and explores some potential design solutions, including a full-scale prototype Mars habitat and the high-fashion clothing that the Martian pioneers might be wearing. The exhibition is structured into five...

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V&A to stage Europe’s first major exhibition on the kimono

The V&A in London will bring together 17th-century Japanese garments, international haute couture and costumes from Star Wars in Europe’s first major exhibition on kimono fashion. The ultimate symbol of Japan, the kimono is often perceived as traditional, timeless and unchanging, the V&A is looking to counter this conception with a new...

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Phaidon publishes visual autobiography by Rihanna

Rihanna has created a large-format, 504-page book about her life as a musician, performer, designer and entrepreneur. Phaidon will publish the autobiography, which will feature over 1,000 exclusive photos, many of which have never been seen publicly before. "We are excited and proud to publish this incredible book by this extremely talented and...

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Inside the Tim Walker: Wonderful Things exhibition

The V&A’s latest exhibition, ‘Tim Walker: Wonderful Things’ invites visitors into the fantastical imagination of one of the world’s most renowned photographers, featuring the largest exhibition of Walker’s pictures to date, celebrating his "extraordinary contribution” to image-making over the last 25 years and the inspirational role that the...

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In Pictures: 2019 Exhibition of Parsons MFA Fashion Design & Society

Parsons MFA Fashion Design and Society held a reception at New York Fashion Week inaugurating its annual exhibition to showcase the thesis collections of 12 graduating designers through installations and a special collaboration with fragrance manufacturer the Robertet Group. Garments and portfolios were available to view while designers were on...

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Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel shows to be immortalized with Rizzoli book

Karl Lagerfeld’s elaborate, theatrical, and undeniably iconic fashion shows will be cemented into fashion history in the form of Rizzoli’s photography book, Lagerfeld: The Chanel Shows. The publishing company made the announcement on its Instagram. The book, dedicated to Lagerfeld’s fantastical Chanel fashion shows, which demonstrate only a...

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V&A Dior exhibition “most visited” in museum’s history

The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum in London has set a new visitor record with its ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ exhibition, surpassing the former record set by 2015’s ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ by over 100,000 visitors. The most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the House of Dior closed on September 1 and the...

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Largest public display of Levi Strauss to open in 2020

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is to present the largest public display of Levi Strauss archival material assembled as part of its new exhibition, ‘Levi Strauss: A History of American Style’ next year. Running from February 13 to August 9, 2020, the exhibition will explore the story of Levi Strauss, a Bavarian Jewish dry goods...

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'The Fashion Forecasters': A closer look at the history of colour and trend prediction

Peering into the crystal ball and trying to spot the colours and shapes that consumers will swoon over in coming seasons is perhaps fashion‘s most obscure and fascinating occupation. The book, The Fashion Forecasters – A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction, seeks to demystify the ways in which trends develop by grounding the process...

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Lyst and Pinterest name the most fashion-influential TV characters

Fashion search platform Lyst partnered with visual discovery engine Pinterest to determine the biggest fashion influences on the small screen. The research resulted in a list of the 11 television characters and personalities with the most influence on consumer fashion. The two parties integrated their huge global data sets, analyzed search...