Ann-Sofie Back’s Exhibition in Stockholm Is a Near Death Experience
Selects from Ann-Sofie Back Atelje and Back collections on Vogue Runway. As I see it, the takeaway from the exhibition will be that Back was (too) ahead of her time. …
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“What Is More Beautiful?” Five Questions With Inge Grognard as “Masquerade, Makeup & Ensor” Opens in Antwerp
“Masquerade, Makeup & Ensor,” a new exhibition in Antwerp at MoMu challenges the hierarchies that separate fine and applied art and fashion from beauty (hair and makeup). The occasion for …
“Let Us Dance, Let Us Pray, Let Us Make Love.” Fashion Takeaways From an Exhibition on the Ballets Russes
Léon Bakst (1866–1924), Costume design for a nymph in The Afternoon of a Faun (L’Après-midi d’un Faune), 1912. Watercolor, pencil, and gold paint on paper. Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, …
A Primer on Mary McFadden, the Designer Whose Vintage Dresses ‘Vogue’ Editors Are Lusting Over
1968 “Mrs. Harari invites experience. She has no fear and little vanity,” noted the writer of a 1968 Vogue profile. ‘Not only no fear but colossal nerve,’ said [a] friend. …
“Everything Is About Chemistry”—Sissel Tolaas on Her Mission to Understand Smell at the Met and Beyond
Sissel Tolaas for Balenciaga, spring 2024 ready-to-wear Photo: Courtesy of Balenciaga Conservation has come a long way since the days when Diana Vreeland reportedly staged scented exhibitions at the Costume …
Designer Nina Hollein Is Enjoying Her Moment in the Sun
Max Hollein and Nina Hollein, in a dress of her own design, at the 2024 Met Gala. Photo: Taylor Hill / Getty Images Exhibits Are Us could be the motto …
“Sleeping Beauties” Creative Consultant Nick Knight on Using Science and Tech to Evolve How Fashion Is Showcased in Museums
“In the exhibition, the very first thing you see in terms of that sort of interaction is this beautiful Pepper’s Ghost of a [Charles Frederick] Worth dress. It’s moving…you can …
The Met’s “Sleeping Beauties” Exhibition Is Designed to Awaken Your Senses
“…to sleep, perchance to dream…” In its focus on sensory immersion and participatory elements, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”—the Costume Institute’s new show, opening to the public on May 10, after …
In His First Solo Museum Exhibition, Photographer Kacey Jeffers Takes a Kaleidoscopic View of Life in Nevis
At the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, photographer Kacey Jeffers’s first solo exhibition, “Multitudes” (on view through May 4), bursts with color and insight. Spanning five series …
In a Thrilling New Show Artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen Explores the Beauty and Terror of Life
All of the landscapes have the title “As above, so below,” which comes from an ancient text, and might suggest a Dantean reading. The largest work in the exhibition is …