A wedding, a rock star, a fashion legend, a master painter and 700 photographs. From the Marais to La Villette, Paris is putting on quite a show this season. Five exhibitions to get off the sofa and cross the Seine. Remember MeSeven…
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A heel without a heel, Aurélie Dupont’s pointe shoes, Usain Bolt’s spikes, a shoe imagined by David Lynch for Christian Louboutin… at Printemps Haussmann in Paris, more than 200 pieces tell the story of footwear as an object of desire, power, performance,…
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Photography, contemporary art, fashion: Milan is making the most of Fashion Week with a wave of new artistic offerings. From William Klein’s electric cities to Charmaine Poh’s digital identities, from Shilpa Gupta’s political art to Viktor&Rolf’s radical silhouettes, four newly opened exhibitions…
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Self-taught, Baltimore-raised and long operating outside fashion’s official system, Menyelek Rose has spent more than a decade cutting clothes apart and finding new forms inside them. As MENYELEK just unveiled The Narrator in Brooklyn, reconstruction becomes both method and story. At 28,…
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Fabric offcuts, Moroccan rugs, and an idea that became iconic: from her Paris studio, Calla Haynes has reinvented the babouche as a contemporary object of desire, bringing together craftsmanship, upcycling and slow fashion. Before it became a babouche brand, Calla was a…
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In Marseille, the Mucem is dedicating an exhibition to one of the most singular figures in French fashion. More than a retrospective, “Mossi Traoré, la mode aussi” explores a universe shaped as much by haute couture as by popular cultures, urban arts…
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Freshly selected for the British Fashion Council’s prestigious NEWGEN programme, Francesca Lake is emerging as one of the most compelling new voices in London fashion. Drawing on Jamaica’s social history, cultural rituals and everyday realities, she uses clothing as a powerful tool…
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At the Musée Maillol this summer, a major retrospective revisits the dazzling world of Gianni Versace, designer, provocateur and architect of fashion’s most glamorous decade. Before fashion became content, before designers turned into global celebrities, there was Gianni Versace. The Italian designer…
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The most intimate fashion sale of the decade reveals not just garments, but the mind of one of fashion’s greatest revolutionaries. Fashion loves the word archive. The industry uses it constantly: archival pieces, archival references, archival collections. Entire careers now seem built…
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