Victoria and Albert Museum
The Christian Dior Exhibit at London's Victoria & Albert Museum Is 2019's Must-See Hit
"Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams" expands on last year's couture exhibition in Paris, charting the brand's history from 1947 to present day.
The Google Cultural Institute's Newest Initiative Could Mean Big Things for Fashion History
The non-profit arm of the tech mammoth digitized more than 30,000 pieces to make the history of fashion accessible to everyone.
Must Read: Anthropologie Expands into Superstores, Asos Creates a Princess Diana-Inspired Capsule Collection
Plus, meet Christopher Kane's new CEO.
Must Read: Diptyque Expands, Why Band of Outsiders Failed
And the Victoria and Albert Museum plans an exhibit on underwear.
V&A's 'Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945' Exhibition Lands in Nashville
The exhibition organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London presents a history of fashion from 1950s couture to present-day red carpet gowns.
'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' Lands in London
The exhibit, which broke attendance records at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been expanded for London's Victoria and Albert Museum, replete with a near life-size hologram of Kate Moss.
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Net-a-Porter Launches Italian Designer Collaboration to Promote V&A Fashion Exhibit
Following in the footsteps of Louis Vuitton and Moda Operandi, Net-a-Porter is the latest retailer to promote a fashion exhibition with an exclusive capsule collection.
Fashion News Roundup: Lauren Conrad Covers Her New Beauty Book, Kim Kardashian Launches Her First 'Luxury' Fragrance, and Beyoncé Gets a Writing Award
Kim Kardashian is releasing her fourth fragrance, a "luxury" scent called True Reflection. A Lord & Taylor rep said the perfume will reach a more mature audience who can "share in Kim’s experiences in reflecting on what she’s gone through." Right... {WWD subscription required} Here's the cover of LC's new book-- aptly titled Beauty-- as well as shots from her summer lookbook for Kohl's. {ONTD} The Victoria and Albert Museum in London will open its "Ballgowns" exhibit in a fortnight (a term we might actually use if we were located anywhere remotely geographically close to attending this amazingness), which will include gowns worn by Beyoncé and Bianca Jagger. {Vogue UK} Because Beyoncé is literally good at everything, now she's getting a writing award. {HuffPo via ONTD}
10 Fashion Exhibitions You Won't Want to Miss in 2012
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.
Osman Yousefzada Puts on Quite the Fashion Show
LONDON--Designer Osman Yousefzada claims to accomplish with pattern cutting what plastic surgeons do with scalpels. On Friday afternoon in the chasmic Raphael Gallery of London's trove of ancient art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, he aimed to demonstrate just that. Applauded for his graceful draping and masterful cutting, the designer was tapped to showcase a taster of his past collections in the V&A's public Fashion in Motion series. Previous homegrown talents showcased in the triannual events include the late Alexander McQueen, Gareth Pugh and Vivienne Westwood.