Category: Art
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His work went beyond fashion and was a fine art. Inside “Charles James: Beyond Fashion”.
Look inside the Charles James exhibition @ MET. The career of legendary 20th-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978) is examined in the newly-opened Costume Institute’s new Anna Wintour Costume Center. The exhibition at the Met brought to life some rumors about a reappearance of the legendary brand. The MET exhibition explores James’s design process and…
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Fashion fades but style is eternal: the return of rock’s women of the 70s
Three stars who broke the mould are back – and could today’s divas learn from their uncompromising stance?
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Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reopened and renamed the Anna Wintour Costume Center
After two years renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reopened with a new exhibition and a brand new name – the Anna Wintour Costume Center. The complex named after the high-powered Vogue editor-in-chief and the most powerful woman in fashion has been completely redesigned and renovated and was reopened on May…
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Curators may be sceptical but branding is vital for museums
The Tate and British Museum are among institutions that have adopted brand thinking – taken seriously, it can help our scholarship reach more people
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Will Young: Why I love Magritte
‘Magritte was smart on the outside, rebellious on the inside – and that’s kind of like me’
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British Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room
State-of-the-art facility will store more than three centuries of newspapers and magazines dating back to the English civil war