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Design Museum Holon opens largest fashion exhibition to date

Design Museum Holon, the first museum in Israel dedicated to design, has opened its “most ambitious” fashion exhibition spanning the entire museum. ‘The Ball’ open until December 11, is billed as a multi-sensory theatrical experience, combining fashion, sound, music, scenery, and lighting to showcase how dresses from the past resonate with...

Jul 29, 2021

Culture

HBO Max to launch streetwear series 'The Hype'

US TV network HBO Max, owned by media conglomerate Warner Media, is launching a new series format that pits streetwear designers against each other. The eight-part series ‘The Hype’ starts on August 12, Warner Media announced on Wednesday. The designers must present their creations to a jury who will critique the competing streetwear makers....

Jul 22, 2021

Culture

Thierry Mugler exhibition coming to Paris

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris will open the ‘Thierry Mugler: Couturissime’ retrospective exhibition in September, after being delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The exhibition on Thierry Mugler, which first made its debut at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts in 2019, will retrace his five decades of work in fashion, haute couture and...

Jul 22, 2021

Culture

Cannes fashion: The good, the bad and the plain weird

Cannes - With so few red carpets to walk this past year, stars, celebs and the world’s sharpest-elbowed influencers piled onto the “tapis rouge” at the Cannes film festival. Not even the absence of Lea Seydoux - sidelined by a last-minute case of Covid - could dim the glamour. Here is our pick of the most unforgettable looks of the fortnight:...

Jul 19, 2021

Culture

V&A to highlight menswear, Africa and Korea in 2022

London’s V&A Museum is placing a spotlight on the fashion and creativity of Africa and South Korea, as well as staging its first major exhibition focusing on menswear as part of its 2022-2023 programme. ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’, joins ‘Africa Fashion’,which was announced in January, and ‘Hallyu! The Korean Wave’ as the V&A...

Jul 8, 2021

Culture

London's V&A East unveils new creative vision

The V&A has unveiled its creative vision for its new national museum complex in East London, V&A East, alongside its first acquisitions including a gown designed by Molly Goddard. V&A East will comprise of two sister sites currently under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The V&A East Storehouse will open in 2024 and offer a new...

Jul 5, 2021

Culture |Interview

Denim artist Ian Berry: “Sustainability means little to me now”

Not often does it happen that one’s passion aligns perfectly with one’s profession, in this case, art and fashion. Add a cult item - the humble denim jeans - and you got a winner. FashionUnited spoke to British artist Ian Berry (via email) in detail about his incredible artworks, the denim industry and his disenchantment with it, his...

Jul 5, 2021

Culture

Walpole launches love letters from Britain series

A new documentary series called Love Letters from Britain is set to launch on July 5th. First announced in December last year,the series is produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions for Walpole, the association for British luxury brands, and aims to inspire a global audience by showcasing innovative British creativity changing the face...

Jul 1, 2021

Culture

Meadows Museum and Museo del Traje to collaborate on fashion exhibition

The Meadows Museum in Dallas has announced a major exhibition of Spanish fashion that will pair paintings from its collection with historic dress and accessories from the Museo del Traje (Spanish National Museum for Fashion) in Madrid. ‘Canvas and Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje’ marks the first major collaboration between...

Jun 10, 2021

Culture

Dior retrospective coming to the Brooklyn Museum in September

The highly successful ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ exhibition, which debut in Paris at theMusée des Arts Décoratifsin 2017, before stopping in London and Shanghai is coming to America in September. The major retrospective of the House of Dior will run at the Brooklyn Museum in New York from September 10 to February 20, 2022, with an...

Jun 7, 2021

Culture

Cruella is a fashion feast to behold

The new Disney adaption of 101 Dalmatians is a fantasia of fashion’s perennial quest for relevance and equally the making of its villain, Emma Stone, as the inimitable Cruella de Vil. It is lonely at the top, Emma Thompson’s character - the icy haute couturier Baroness - would echo. A position that requires cut-throat tenacity and unrelentless...

May 30, 2021

Culture

Exploring the eternal fascination around designer Alexander McQueen

Robert Fairer is a fashion photographer known for capturing the drama backstage at John Galliano’s shows for Christian Dior, and at Marc Jacobs, which he collected in the technicolor tomes,John Galliano UnseenandMarc Jacobs Unseen. A recent addition to the series, isAlexander McQueen Unseen, featuring previously unpublished photos. John Matheson...

May 21, 2021