The latest exhibition to take up residency at NYC’s The Museum at FIT is Shoe Obsession, featuring over 150 pieces of contemporary footwear, which also made their way into an accompanying book due out in April. Designers featured include icons like Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutins and relative newcomers like Charlotte Olympia.
The FIT Museum‘s Chief Curator Valerie Steele has an interesting exhibition in the works for next year. It’s to be called “Queer Style: From the Closet to the Catwalk” and will focus on gay designers.
Admittedly, our initial thought was: “Wait, so will it include every (male) designer?” The fact that gay designers outnumber straight male ones (though, there are more heterosexuals than you might think) makes us wonder how exactly they’ll… narrow that down.
Given the record-breaking success of this year’s Alexander McQueen retrospective at the Met, museums would be smart to put more fashion in their halls. And if today’s piece in WWD on museums “getting fashionable” is any indication, they are. Harold Koda, curator in charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, told the trade, “Clearly the critical as well as popular success of the McQueen show suggests that fashion design has a more secure place in the precincts of an art museum.”
While any museum would be hard-pressed to recreate the magic that was “Savage Beauty,” more fashion exhibits are popping up all over the world and several big ones are already on track to debut next year.
The Prettiest Baby Bump Ever: Miranda Kerr posed nude for W magazine, six months pregnant with what will be the most attractive child to ever be born. {W}
Wedding Disaster: In related news, Kerr might also be walking down the aisle naked because American Airlines lost luggage containing her wedding dress in July. Four months later, she still thinks she has a chance at getting it back and asked her Facebook friends for advice. {Racked}
Is London More Posh? Victoria Beckham might start showing in London instead of New York. “I’m very proud to be British and the brand is British,” said the designer. {Vogue UK}
