Chanel handbag show opens to Central Park
The iconic quilted leather Chanel handbag with its golden chain gets honored in a new exhibition in New York's Central Park, housed in a snow-white spaceship-like mobile art gallery...
Exhibitions
Museum aims to make French town the hub of perfume history
From ancient Egyptian ceremonial incense to pungent Mesopotamian ointments and lotions dating back to medieval France, a newly re-opened French museum traces perfume's lesser-known past.
Guardian of vintage costume jewellery unveils treasure-trove
Surrounded by display cases crammed with colourful baubles, Olwen Forest admits "It's a passion".
Tracksuit chic explored in London exhibition
Is your sweaty old tracksuit a fashion statement or just comfy clothing? A new exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum explores how high fashion and sport have paired up over...
"Barbie" undergoes artsy makeover in San Francisco
The blond hair, pert nose and twinkling eyes of the shapely doll were unmistakably Barbie, but what was she doing attached to a prehistoric bug? Welcome to San Francisco's annual "Altered...
Valentino on show in Paris again five months after retirement
Five months after bidding farewell to the Paris catwalks at a final haute couture collection in January, Italian designer Valentino is back in the French capital with a major...
Dutch designer displays racy undergarments in famous gallery
Bold, confident, sexy and never demure; the lingerie of Dutch designer Marlies Dekkers adorns the Rotterdam Kunsthal art gallery to mark 15 years of an illustrious career.
Exhibition of historic handbags, the new collectables
Handbags are the new jewellery, the New York Times recently noted, and with vintage models fetching increasingly high prices at auction, they are also becoming eminently collectable.
Capes and spandex: Met explores fashionable superheroes
The clothes make the superhero: Clark Kent ripping his shirt open to reveal an "S" emblazoned on his brawny chest. Bruce Wayne slipping into his Batman outfit to battle the whip-cracking...
Dior museum celebrates dandies
Legendary dandy Oscar Wilde once declared "One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art," a sentiment endorsed by designer Christian Dior, who acknowledged dandyism as a...
Avedon "uber alles" say fashionistas as expo hits Milan
A retrospective of works by US photographer Richard Avedon has taken Milan fashion week by storm, with pundits prophesying that the man who breathed life and soul into glamour will remain...
Lavish Lacroix turns curator for 200-year look at fashion
Christian Lacroix, arguably the most extravagant couturier in Paris, never intended to be a fashion designer. His dream was to be a museum curator, a wish come true this week via a...
The museum of 'It' bags
While the hope of any major designer nowadays is to come up with the season's "it" bag, in Amsterdam the Museum of Bags and Purses is filled with the "it" bags of centuries past.
How flapper fashion freed woman
From hair cropped short, to smoking cigarettes and making-up in public, the Roaring 20s revolutionised women's wear and lifestyles like no other era before, according to a show kicking...
Russian museum pays tribute to Chanel
A little black dress and a Soviet painting, gold embroidery and Russian icons: fashion and art are brought together at an exhibition devoted to French fashion house Chanel that opened...