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The Only True Protest Is Beauty

Venedig ( I ) > 25.04.2026 - 04.10.2026

Fondazione Dries Van Noten presents

Curated by Dries Van Noten with Geert Bruloot, the Presentation considers craftsmanship as a language of expression and a conduit for emotion. Works from fashion, jewellery, design, art, photography, glass, ceramics, and material experimentation move beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplines, responding to one another to challenge assumptions, unsettle expectations, and reveal the profoundly human dimension of making.

Within the rooms of Palazzo Pisani Moretta, the pieces engage with the building and with each other. As visitors move from the ground floor through the Piano Nobile levels, over two hundred objects resonate with ceilings, frescoes, and ornamental details, forming interactions that unfold with rhythm and intuition. Affinities emerge and contrasts ripple through space, each composition carrying the tension between mastery and discovery, between reflection and provocation. The Palazzo itself becomes an active participant, guiding perception and shaping the relationships between forms, materials, and histories.

Beauty here is not a fixed ideal but a questioning presence. Making becomes a process of discovery, a dialogue that carries the traces of intention and imagination. Visitors move through moments of resonance and disruption, where perception awakens and possibilities unfold, and craft reveals itself as an ongoing process of inquiry and encounter.

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Fondazione Dries van Noten
Palazzo Pisani Moretta,
San Polo, 2766
30125 Venedig
Italien

weitere Infos: fondazionedriesvannoten.org/en

Memory is home

Hasselt ( B) > 14.05.2026 - 31.01.2027

From 14 May onwards, dive into the memories of Raf Simons, Olivier Rizzo, Hannelore Knuts, Inge Grognard and other leading figures, each with a strong connection to Limburg.

Memory is Home shares stories never told before and offers a unique insight into the lives and work of influential figures, both in front of and behind the scenes of the fashion world. Explore themes such as nostalgia, movement & belonging, and togetherness, and experience how fashion and memories are deeply intertwined.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Modemuseum Hasselt
Gasthuisstraat 11,
3500 Hasselt
Belgien

weitere Infos: www.modemuseumhasselt.be/Home-EN/Expositions/Now-on-show/Memory-is-Home.html

Yves Saint Laurent on Stage

Marrakesch ( M) > 30.01.2026 - 05.01.2027

Costumes and decors for theater, ballet and musical revues

As a child, Yves Mathieu-Saint-Laurent discovered the magic of theater in Oran, Algeria, when in 1950 he attended a performance of Molière’s L’Ecole des femmes by Louis Jouvet’s theatrical com-pany. He was particularly struck by Christian Berard’s sets and costumes.
Christian Dior, his first and only employer, encouraged the young man to explore Parisian cultural life. But it was the choreographer Roland Petit who revealed his artistic talent by entrusting him with the costumes for the ballet Cyrano de Bergerac in 1959, followed by the costumes for eight other ballets, all before Saint Laurent opened his own couture house in 1962. The couturier’s collaboration with the dancer and singer Zizi Jeanmaire gave rise to legendary musical revues and costumes, including
“Mon truc en plumes” [My Feather Thing] from 196I.
The success of his ballet designs attracted the attention of the theater and film worlds. Saint Laurent worked on numerous projects that confirmed his passion for the stage and his interpretive talent.
While his fashion sketches are remarkable, it is his work as a costume designer that truly reveals his artistry through his mastery of light, keen sense of color, and use of precise lines to embody character and movement.
Countless women have experienced the thrill of wearing Yves Saint Laurent’s creations, but it is the actors and dancers who have worn his costumes that best attest to his creative genius when designing for the stage.

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Musee YVES SAINT LAURENT Marrakesch
Rue YVES SAINT LAURENT
40000 MARRAKECH
Marroko

weitere Infos: www.museeyslmarrakech.com/en/expositions/exposition-permanente/exposition-en-cours/

VENUS

Rom ( I ) > 18.01.2026 - 19.07.2024

Valentino Garavani through the eyes of Joana Vasconcelos
In the solemn rhythm of Piazza Mignanelli – the intimate Roman threshold that borders Piazza di Spagna and preserves the history of Valentino Garavani – PM23 presents a new chapter in the journey imagined by Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti, an expression of the artistic and cultural experience of their Foundation and the starting point of a renewed commitment: to give back to the city an exhibition space dedicated to art, fashion and culture, seen as tools for dialogue, growth, and social progress. A place, both physical and ideal, where beauty is not a static concept but a driving force, capable of generating meaning and transformation. Dense with meaning and profoundly evocative, the exhibition offers a non-linear journey, combining representative works by Joana Vasconcelos with surprising new site-specific pieces inspired by Valentino Garavani’s legacy.

The exhibition is a dialogue. My work and Valentino Garavani’s speak to each other until they converge in a final, almost suspended moment. Mr. Valentino believes deeply in beauty – and so do I. Because beauty generates harmony, and harmony bears the promise of peace and social justice, a promise the world urgently needs today.” - Joana Vasconcelos

Through abstraction, the artist reinterprets clothing, shapes, and textile surfaces, giving life to the Valkyrie VENUS – a body of work that does not imitate, but rather engages with haute couture as a discipline of majestic beauty and masterful, hieratic excellence. 

Vasconcelos presents a monumental work which, intertwining thousands of decorative elements, gives life to a contemporary and abstract heroine, a symbol of power, protection and resilience. VENUS thus becomes an ambassador and interpreter of our time, an expression of a powerful and collaborative artisanal intelligence, of rediscovered identity, redemption, and of social vitality for the most vulnerable people in today’s world.

Conceived by the artist and created by thousands of hands – thanks to the collaboration between the Fondazione Valentino Garavani e Giancarlo Giammetti | PM23 and ten notable partners –, the work was created by the hands of over one hundred students from the Arts and Fashion departments of the NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Campus di Roma, the Accademia di Costume e Moda, and the Maiani Accademia Moda; the hands of young patients at the Ospedale Bambino Gesù and their families; the hands of patients at the end of life at the Gemelli Medical Center; the hands of women from the INTERSOS refugee shelters and the Differenza Donna shelter for victims of violence; and the hands of female inmates at the Casa Circondariale del Carcere di Rebibbia, involved thanks to the partnership with the Fondazione Severino.

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PM 23
FONDAZIONE
Valentino Gravani e Giancarlo Giammetti
Piazza Mignanelli 23
Rom
Italien

weitere Infos: piazzamignanelli23.com/en

Annas Muster

Schalkenmehren ( D ) > 17.05.2026 - 25.10.2026

26.05.2026

ANNAS MUSTER

Schalkenmehren/Eifel (D) > 17.05. – 25.10.2026

Das Heimweberei-Museum Schalkenmehren in der Vulkaneifel begeht in diesem Jahr das hundertjährige Gründungsjubiläum der Heimweberei-Genossenschaft Schalkenmehren. Anläßlich dessen erinnert das Museum mit einer Sonderausstellung unter dem Titel "ANNAS MUSTER" an die Genossenschaftsgründerin Anna Droste-Lehnert (1892-1976) und ihr außergewöhnliches künstlerisches und soziales Lebenswerk.

Anna Droste-Lehnert hatte zu einer Zeit, als es für Frauen unglaublich schwer bis geradezu unmöglich war, beruflich eigenständige Wege zu gehen, mit ihrem textilen Großprojekt eine Verbesserung der damaligen wirtschaftlichen Notlage einer gesamten Region bewirken können. Ihre geschmackvollen Musterentwürfe und die von den Heimwebern daraus hergestellten Weberei-Erzeugnisse wurden u.a. vor Ort zu Mode- und Gebrauchstextilien verarbeitet, gewannen zahlreiche Preise und fanden deutschlandweite Kundschaft.

Das besondere textile Betriebsmodell funktionierte insgesamt 6 Jahrzehnte lang. Nach  Schließung der Heimweberei-Genossenschaft wurde Anfang der 1990er Jahre ein (ehrenamtlich geführtes) Museum gegründet, das die textilen Visionen der Pionierin Anna Droste-Lehnert und die ungewöhnliche Handwerksgeschichte des Ortes wissenschaftlich aufarbeitete dem Vergessenwerden entriss.

Die nun gezeigte Sonderausstellung "ANNAS MUSTER" ist folgerichtig in die Dauerausstellung eingebunden. Initiatorinnen und künstlerische Leiterinnen von "ANNAS MUSTER" sind die beiden Textilkünstlerinnen Nadja Hormisch und Beate Lambrecht (project a:NaB). Sie haben Kunsthandwerker*innen, Künstler*innen und Designer*innen aus der Eifel-Mosel-Region und aus Luxemburg eingeladen, die farbenfrohen, historischen Musterentwürfe von Anna Droste-Lehnert neu zu interpretieren.

Die Teilnehmer*innen bei "ANNAS MUSTER" zeigen Textilkunst, Mode und Handwerk, immer in Verbindung zu den berühmten Musterentwürfen von Anna Droste-Lehnert stehend. Die Besucher*innen erleben, wie traditionelle Muster durch neue Materialien und aktuelle Gestaltungstendenzen in die Gegenwart übertragen werden. Das Projekt verbindet Geschichte, Handwerk, Kunst, Mode und Design. Es zeigt, wie lebendig textile Tradition sein kann und wie sie Menschen auch heute noch inspiriert.

Text - und Bildquelle: project a:NaB

Heimweberei-Museum Schalkenmehren
Mehrener Straße 5, 54552 Schalkenmehren

weitere Infos: www.annas-muster.de/

ERTÉ Style is Everything

Fontanellato ( I ) < 28.03.2026 - 28.06.2026

The new spring exhibition at the Labirinto della Masone is dedicated to Erté, one of the most emblematic figures of the Art Déco movement.

A scenographer, costume designer and visual artist among the most versatile and visionary of the twentieth century, Erté forged an unmistakable language blending the decorative and symbolic elements of interwar modernity.
His drawings – defined by sophisticated geometries and impossible elegance – recount the changing styles and the unreachable world of divas, while revealing the dialogue between haute couture and mass culture.

A fixture in major public and private collections worldwide, Erté is here the focus of an exhibition collecting more than one hundred and fifty works, many of them never displayed before, offering a wide and unprecedented perspective on the variety and richness of his creative universe.

Having arrived in Paris from Russia in 1912, Erté – born Roman Petrovič Tyrtov and later French-styled Romain de Tirtoff – began working at a very young age for Paul Poiret, the couturier who revolutionised early-twentieth-century fashion.

From 1915 to 1937, he collaborated with Harper’s Bazaar, creating over two hundred covers for the magazine. Through this long partnership, which played a decisive role in shaping the visual imagery of Art Déco, he established himself as an internationally renowned illustrator.
His works also appeared in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and The London News, consolidating his fame on both sides of the Atlantic.

At the same time, Erté designed costumes for Music hall and for the major theatrical productions enlivening Paris and New York in the 1920s, eventually extending his work to Hollywood. From Mistinguett to Marion Davies, from Sarah Bernhardt to Mata Hari, Erté’s creations turned the ordinary into the extraordinary.
His stage designs for the Folies-Bergère and the Ziegfeld Follies became true ‘wonderlands’, enhanced by memorable inventions such as ‘living curtains’ and ‘collective costumes’.

It is little wonder that his designs achieved such resonance. Innovative, elegant and extravagant, they became icons of a dazzling Déco aesthetic – one profoundly attuned to the world of Franco Maria Ricci.

It was indeed Ricci who, in 1970, published the first major Italian volume dedicated to Erté, featuring an essay by Roland Barthes, as part of the series The Signs of Man. On that occasion, several of the artist’s works entered the collection now preserved at the Labirinto della Masone, recently enriched by the acquisition of four additional drawings by the Russian master.

At a time of renewed critical and curatorial attention to Art Déco, the exhibition offers a comprehensive re-reading of Erté’s oeuvre, revealing its complexity and modernity.

The exhibition brings together over one hundred and fifty works – drawings, sketches (including pieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London), pochoirs, lithographs, photographs, documents and film materials – with particular focus on the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, the most original and fertile period of his career.
Alongside loans from Italian and international private collections, the exhibition also features the twenty-eight works belonging to the Franco Maria Ricci Collection.

The impactful exhibition design guides visitors through Erté’s visual universe by exploring the principal domains of his activity: from fashion illustration to theatre and Music hall, from editorial collaborations to his celebrated Alphabet and Numbers series.

The exhibition was curated by Valerio Terraroli, coordinated by Elisa Rizzardi and designed by Maddalena Casalis.

For the occasion, a namesake volume will be published by Franco Maria Ricci Editore, featuring texts by Valerio Terraroli and Alessandra Tiddia.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Labirinto della Masone –
Masone srl
Strada Masone, 121
43012 Fontanellato (PR)
Italien

weitere Infos: www.labirintodifrancomariaricci.it/en/mostre/erte-style-is-everything/

Costume Art

New york ( USA)< 01.05.2026 - 10.01.2027

The Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition explores depictions of the dressed body across The Met’s vast collection, pairing garments with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.

Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art presents connections between garments from The Costume Institute and objects from the Museum’s other collecting areas. Pairings between fashions and artworks will present a spectrum of connections and experiences: from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the individual to the universal, the illustrative to the symbolic, and the playful to the profound. These pairings are organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their pervasiveness and endurance through time and cultures.

Costume Art is the inaugural exhibition in the new, nearly 12,000-square-foot galleries adjacent to the Great Hall. This space will display The Costume Institute’s annual spring show and, at times, shows from the Museum’s other curatorial departments, including those that explore the intersection of fashion and art.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

The Met Fifth Avenue
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Amerika

weitere Infos: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/costume-art

Africa Fashion

Paris ( F ) > 31.03.2026 - 12.07.2026

After conquering New York, Chicago, Melbourne and Montreal, the Africa Fashion exhibition, developed by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, arrives in Paris. Here, it proposes a dialogue between contemporary African fashion and the rich historical collections of the musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac.

The exhibition takes the visitor on an enthralling journey that celebrates the rapid growth of the African scene, driven by a new generation of daring designers. Blending traditional crafts and stylistic innovation, their creations depict a pluralist, connected Africa, proud of its roots and focused on the future.

Africa Fashion examines the interconnecting influences, personal narratives and commitments of artists who are redefining the codes of fashion. Lagos, Dakar and Johannesburg are now established alongside Paris or Milan on the international circuit. The exhibition offers a unique insight into this aesthetic and cultural revolution, revealing an exuberant creativity, long marginalised by the dominant narratives.

The museum is using this occasion to showcase its rich but rarely displayed collections of African textiles, accessories and jewellery. Alongside these, it will feature a selection of photographs taken from its archives and collected from the public, offering a dialogue between past and present.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Musee du quai Branly
Jacques Chirac
37 Quai Branley
75007 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-evenements/au-musee/expositions/details-de-levenement/e/africa-fashion

Many Shades of Grès Mode wird Kunst

Berlin (D) > 15.05. – 11.10.2026

Aufsehenerregende Mode von einer der wichtigsten Wegbereiterinnen der Haute Couture im 20. Jahrhundert sowie davon inspirierte Outfits nach studentischen Entwürfen – das Kunstgewerbemuseum (KGM) präsentiert erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum das faszinierende Werk der französischen Modedesignerin Madame Grès (1903–1993). Im Mittelpunkt steht die 25 Modelle umfassende Grès-Kollektion des KGM und damit eine der größten außerhalb von Paris, wo Grès zeitlebens tätig war. Unter Mitwirkung des Fachbereichs „School of Culture and Design“ der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin beleuchtet die Ausstellung den Kosmos der außergewöhnlichen Couturière aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. In neun Sektionen werden um die 150 unterschiedlichste Exponate gezeigt, die sich als Querverweise auf die 25 Modelle von Madame Grès lesen lassen, die buchstäblich im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung stehen. Es werden unter anderem Kleidungsstücke auf Büsten und Figurinen, Accessoires, Grafiken, Zeichnungen, Fotografien, Skulpturen, Textilobjekte sowie Multi-Media-Installationen (Filme, Projektionen) gezeigt. Sie werden ergänzt um studentische Positionen sowie kontextualisierende Werke – darunter Plastiken, Gemälde, Fotografien, Grafiken, Filme und virtuelle Elemente.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Johanna und Eduard Arnhold Platz (ehem. Matthäikirchplatz)
10785 Berlin
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/many-shades-of-gres/

La mode en majesté. Royal Thai dress from tradition to modernity

Paris ( F ) > 13.05.2026 bis 01.11.2026

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents a unique exhibition on the clothing evolution at the Thai court, featuring pieces from the royal collection.

Gathering more than a hundred exceptional garments and accessories, the exhibition showcases the royal wardrobes, highlighting the eight traditional Thai costume formats designed by Her Majesty Queen Sirikit in collaboration with a team of historians and local Thai designers. The exhibition also emphasizes the unique history of cultural and artistic dialogue, marked by over thirty years of collaboration between Queen Sirikit and fashion designer Pierre Balmain, later continued with the Balmain and Lesage houses.

Organized in collaboration with the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in Thailand and The Sustainable Arts and Crafts Institute of Thailand (SACIT), the exhibition coincides with the celebrations of the 170th and 340th anniversaries of diplomatic relations between France and Thailand (formerly the Kingdom of Siam).

Since the 1960s, Queen Sirikit has maintained close relationships with major French and European fashion houses. Passionate about fashion, she played a central role in modernizing court attire, presenting her creations during official trips with King Rama IX. With Pierre Balmain’s assistance, she reinvented Thai royal elegance, preserving its heritage while giving it international appeal.

This exhibition presents a selection of pieces from the royal family’s wardrobes and offers a unique insight into the rich Thai craft traditions in textiles, jewelry, and accessories. Committed to the preservation of tradition, Queen Sirikit worked tirelessly to protect her country’s textile arts and crafts, leading to the creation of the SUPPORT Foundation. Today, the Foundation is under the patronage of Queen Suthida, who continues to defend and expand its mission, while her granddaughter, Princess Sirivannavari, perpetuates this legacy as a fashion designer, supporting a new generation of Thai creators, encouraging contemporary innovation, and promoting the use of traditional textiles.

Visitors are invited to discover the exceptional diversity and beauty of Thai silk fabrics and court costumes, witnesses to a unique family and cultural history as well as fruitful exchanges between France and Thailand.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite

Musée des Arts décoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: madparis.fr/La-mode-en-majeste-Royal-Thai-dress-from-tradition-to-modernity