Gucci helps with Grammy musical archives’ preservation efforts
The Image Gate/Getty Images for Gucci Gucci celebrated its partnership with the Recording Academy at Baselworld by showing off its Grammy timepiece and jewellery collection, and announcing a preservation project being handled by the Grammy Museum. Announced last October, the partnership sees Gucci supporting the Academy and, notably, this latest venture. Recently unearthed […]
New Zealand Fashion Museum to hold black-themed events
The New Zealand Fashion Museum is holding two events with the Black on Fashion exhibition theme, one in Auckland and the other in Wellington. The Auckland event is hosted by Hotel de Brett on March 15 and features designers Elisabeth Findlay (Zambesi), Beth Ellery, Teresa Hodges (Blak), and Black Magazine founders Grant Fell and […]
Bon & Zai’s contemporary cashmere; interviewing the woman behind Bulgari’s exhibition
Bon & Zai has entered the Swiss market after reporting success in the French Alps and London. The contemporary cashmere label, founded by Nancy Cravero and Isabel Morillo last autumn, will sell to Swiss and European customers online at www.bonandzai.com. Cravero and Morillo have backgrounds in finance and fashion, and collaborate on all the […]
European masters’ exhibition arrives at Te Papa in November
Above Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751–1829): Goethe in der römischen Campagna, 1787. Oil on canvas, 1,610 × 1,975 mm, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Acquired in 1878 as a gift by Baroness Salomon von Rothschild. Te Papa will exhibit European Masters: 19th–20th Century Art from the Städel Museum from November 6 to February 27, with […]
Museum of London explains the making of its pleasure garden
The Museum of London is hosting a session where a curator will explain the making of its recently opened re-creation Georgian pleasure garden on August 24, from 1 to 1.45 p.m. The pleasure garden is complete with tress, park benches, a pavilion, drama and costumed mannequins, with Philip Treacy hats and Yasemen Hussein wigs. […]
Karen Elson, Libby Callaway speak at couture exhibition
Victoria & Albert Museum Above Zémire evening ensemble by Christian Dior, autumn–winter 1954–5. Cellulose acetate, with the skirt lined with layers of silk and net. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn. is showing an exhibition entitled The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, from June 18 to September 12. […]
Fashion Museum of Hasselt looks inside model Hannelore Knuts’s world
Model Hannelore Knuts, 32, has curated an exhibition, Fashion Testimony, to be shown at the Fashion Museum of Hasselt from March 27 to June 6, 2010. Knuts’s exhibition offers a glance at her 10-year career, which includes working the professional catwalk at Chanel, Gucci and other top European labels. Designers featured in the […]
Victoria & Albert Museum to host Grace Kelly exhibition
Above Grace Kelly in a publicity shot for Rear Window. The Victoria & Albert Museum will showcase Grace Kelly’s wardrobe with over 50 of her outfits on show, including hats and the original Hermès Kelly bag. Grace Kelly: Style Icon runs from April 17 to September 26 in room 40 of the Museum. Her […]
Court dress exhibition begins tomorrow at Versailles
Photo copyright Jean-Baptiste Leroux Costume pays court to the Palace of Versailles for an exhibition entitled Court Pomp and Royal Ceremony, to be held from March 31 to June 28, 2009. This exhibition is dedicated to court dress and to the influence of French fashion in European courts, featuring some 200 exhibits. Most of […]
Some years ago I had the privilege of driving through Europe visiting the famous car museums there—from the less-known Rosso Bianco collection in Aschaffenburg to the Musée Nationale in Mulhouse. There’s a new one that’s a must, opening today in Stuttgart: the Porsche Museum. Delayed by a year and with its construction costing […]
