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Rendevous Lee Alexander McQueen Ann Ray

Nashville (USA)>30.05.2024 - 25.08.2024

Lee Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) redefined contemporary fashion with his extraordinary ability to blend exquisite craftsmanship with imaginative storytelling. Mythologized in his own lifetime, the press promoted him variously as L’Enfant Terrible, a troubled genius, and one of the era’s most visionary designers, yet there were few who truly knew him. Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous offers a rare glimpse into the life and mind of McQueen and introduces French photographer Ann Ray (b. 1969) to audiences in the United States. With a partnership built on friendship and trust, Ray was provided unfettered access to McQueen’s world and captured everything from contemplative moments in the design studio to models posing backstage. In total, she shot forty-three collections over the course of thirteen years, creating a massive body of work and an indelible record of McQueen’s creative process at his namesake label and during his tenure as creative director at Givenchy.

The exhibition features 65 captivating photographs hand-selected by Ray herself from her archive of over 32,000 negatives and more than 60 dress objects spanning the entirety of McQueen’s career, all of which are sourced from the world’s largest private collection of McQueen’s works. Both thorough and emotional, the exhibition offers the unique opportunity to reevaluate the life and legacy of a beloved but widely misunderstood figure, and to disentangle the person from the persona.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite( Foto:© Ann Ray )

Frist Art Museum
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
USA

weitere Infos: fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/lee-alexander-mcqueen-and-ann-ray-rendez-vous/

Fashion on the move #2

Paris (F) > 20.04.2024 - 05.01.2025

From 20 April 2024 to 5 January 2025, the Palais Galliera will be presenting its collections exhibition Fashion on the Move #2. For preventive conservation reasons and also in order to display new works from the museum's collections, this second exhibition will present a history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day, while developing a transversal theme on the body in movement. With Paris set to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2024, the Palais Galliera has selected 300 items from its collections to explore the role of special clothing in physical and sports activities as well as the sociological factors reflected in its development. Garments designed for sports and physical activities such as horseriding, tennis, golf and bicycling, are compared with clothes that were worn about town. This second exhibition provides for a better understanding of the gradual specialisation of sports garments and the arrival of sportswear in people's ordinary everyday wardrobe. One section is entirely devoted to sea bathing and swimming, symbolising the democratisation of sport that came with the end of the 19th century. A chance to discover the Palais Galliera’s large collection of bathing suits, swimming costumes, beachwear and related accessories. This bathing section highlights developments in the relationship between the body and its exposure in public, as well as changing notions of modesty and decency. It also reveals shifts in conceptions of beauty, particularly in relation to suntanned skin.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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Palais Galliera
10 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie
Paris 16e, 75116 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/en/exhibitions/fashion-move-2

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

New York City (USA) > 10.05. - 02.09.2024

The Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, will reactivate the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum’s collection through first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies—from cutting-edge tools, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and computer-generated imagery to traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes. Approximately 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries will be on view, visually united by iconography related to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion and a vehicle to examine the cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal. The exhibition will breathe new life into these storied objects through creative and immersive activations designed to convey the smells, sounds, textures, and motions of garments that can no longer directly interact with the body.

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The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 899
New York City
USA

weitere Infos: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/sleeping-beauties-reawakening-fashion

Marco Polo. The Costumes of Enrico Sabbatini

Venedig (I) > 14.05. - 30.09.2024

Marking the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death, on 8 January 1324, the exhibition’s purpose is to relive and showcase his extraordinary adventure on the “Silk Road” through a selection of costumes representing the route followed by the great Venetian merchant and traveller. When he was just seventeen, with his father and uncle he sailed the seas, traversed boundless deserts and visited legendary cities, meeting powerful princes and dangerous warlords from very different countries and cultures. This was shown by the RAI’s major TV production with international participation including China itself. The exhibition will pay tribute to the director Giuliano Montaldo, costume designer Enrico Sabbatini and composer Ennio Morricone, to recall these extraordinary Italian geniuses who have passed away. Specifically, the exhibition reveals the ability of Stefano Nicolao, involved in the production directly by the great costume designer Sabbatini, to work in the Himalayas to create the scenes and costumes of the journey from Persia to China. This initiative presents some thirty costumes recording the route of Marco Polo’s journey from Venice to China, with original sketches, the resultof four years of study and preparation of the film and photos of the sets.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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Palazzo Mocenigo
Santa Croce, 1992
30135 Venezia VE
Italien

weitere Infos: mocenigo.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/mostre-in-corso-en/marco-polo-the-costumes-of-enrico-sabbatini/2024/01/20504/exhibition-marco-polo-costumes-enrico-sabbatini/

Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960

Los Angeles (US) > 16.05.2024 - 02.08.2024

Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960 explores the evolution of women’s sporting attire in Western fashion over this 160-year period. Beginning at the turn of the nineteenth century, when women ventured outside the domestic sphere to partake in outdoor activities, and concluding with the mid-twentieth century, when the basic forms of sportswear we know today were codified, this unprecedented exhibition traces garments and accessories that defined female participation in the sporting world as both athletes and spectators. Examining the competing priorities of fashion, function, and propriety, the exhibition consists of over 100 mannequins and related historic ephemera, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated 350-page catalogue with a preface by international tennis champion Serena Williams.

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Los Angeles Galleries
FIDM Museum
919 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, California, 90015

weitere Infos: fidmmuseum.org/exhibits/sporting-fashion-outdoor-girls-1800-to-1960

Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection

London (GB) > ab 18.05.2024

An unparalleled selection of the world's leading photographers, telling the story of modern and contemporary photography. Discover iconic images across subjects such as fashion, celebrity, reportage and the male body.

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V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road
London, SW7 2RL
GB

weitere Infos: www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/fragile-beauty-photographs-from-the-sir-elton-john-and-david-furnish-collection

Kinder in Samt und Seide

Eutin (D) > 08.06. - 30.09.2024

In der diesjährigen Ausstellung "Kinder in Samt und Seide" tritt Kindermode aus 400 Jahren in einen Dialog mit Kinderporträts. Was erzählen Bilder und Kleidung über den Alltag der Kinder?

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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Stiftung Schloss Eutin
Appartement des Herzogs im Erdgeschoss und Rittersaal
Schlossplatz 5
23701 Eutin
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.schloss-eutin.de/erlebnis/veranstaltungen/

M/others Mode en moedershap

Hasselt (BE) > 14.06.2024 - 05.01.2025

Mothers, mother figures, mentors and family ties are intimately intertwined with fashion history. Many designers reach back to the style of their mother's day, but mum ’s themselves are also a big source of inspiration: from mum jeans to mini-mes, the mum style is a flourishing branch of modern fashion. Symbolic fashion mothers, such as Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet and Sonia Rykiel, made an artistic mark on the creations of their contemporaries and are still influencing present-day designers. Historically, clothing concealed the changing bodies of expectant mothers. From 1900 onward, however, there was a growing appreciation of the cultural identity of mothers, both in fashion and in society. In 20th and 21st century fashion, this culminated in a veritable celebration of mothers and mother figures. From the Blessed Virgin, to contemporary fashion experiments that debunk stereotypes, to the testimonies of non-binary parents, surrogacy parents and adoptive parents, from Christian Dior's New Look to the designs of Jacquemus and the regal women who carry of South African Thebe Magugu: the mother figure as a source of inspiration and creativity in fashion is back from... never having left?

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Modemuseum Hasselt
Gasthuisstraat 11
3500 Hasselt
Belgien

weitere Infos: www.modemuseumhasselt.be/modemuseum/Home-NL/Tentoonstellingen/74388-Verwacht/M-Others.html

Six Lives. The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens

London (GB) > 20.06. - 08.09.2024

Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening, presenting a study of the lives and afterlives of the six women who married Henry VIII. Six Lives will chronicle the representation of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr throughout history and popular culture in the centuries since they lived. As a frequent source of fascination, the stories of the six women has repeatedly inspired writers and artists of all kinds to attempt to uncover the ‘truth’ of their lives: their characters, their appearance and their relationships. From historic paintings, drawings and ephemera, to contemporary photography, costume and film, the exhibition draws upon a wealth of factual and fictional materials to present the life, legacy and portrayal of six women who forever changed the landscape of English history.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London, WC2H 0HE
GB

weitere Infos: www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2024/six-lives

NAOMI

London (GB) > ab 22.06.2024

The first exhibition of its kind exploring the extraordinary career of fashion model Naomi Campbell. Through the work of leading global designers and photographers we celebrate her creative collaborations, activism and far-reaching cultural impact.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

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V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road
London, SW7 2RL
GB

weitere Infos: www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/naomi