"This volume originated as papers presented to the conference "Creating African Fashion Histories" held at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in November 2016"--page vii AFA copy 39088019752393 gift from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louvre’s first fashion exhibition — titled “Louvre Couture: Art and Fashion — Statement Pieces” and on display through July 21 ...

On the third floor of a Spanish-style office building in Santa Barbara, Calif., Cara Austine-Rademaker is spotlighting a little-appreciated aspect of fashion history that had a big impact. Dressmaking ...

Getty Images Alexander McQueen's "Oyster" dress is displayed at The Met for Savage Beauty. “‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ created a moment where everybody took a step back and was like, ‘Oh, ...

Introduction: understanding fashion and dress museology / Marie Riegels Melchior, Designmuseum Danmark, Denmark -- Section 1. The power of fashion: when museums enter new territory : The Costume ...

Beauty and ingenuity can be found around every corner of a new fashion exhibition in Chicago. One mannequin wears a stunning, contemporary piece fashioned primarily from cowrie shells. Another models ...

In the Denver Art Museum’s fashion archive, some garments hang from padded hangers, while others, like beaded dresses and knitwear, lie flat to preserve their quality. It’s dark and quiet inside the ...

Chipmunks that wandered St. Louis in the 1880s are preserved in a crazy quilt that is among a trove of local artifacts maintained in a basement on South Skinker Boulevard. "This is a very colorful ...

Laguna Art Museum added a wearable wrinkle to its Art + Nature celebration with the debut of an upcycled couture fashion show last year. Robin Rundle, the museum’s public programs coordinator, was ...

Last week, Wes Gordon sent an array of art world-adjacent women down the runway at Carolina Herrera’s fall 2026 show. The painter Amy Sherald, photographer Ming Smith, and sculptor Rachel Feinstein, ...

Style retrospectives are attracting record crowds and bringing couture to a wider audience. Every year, on the first Monday in May, people tune in to watch celebrities walk up the steps of New York ...