Fashion lovers, write down these dates because you have an appointment
Charles Delcourt (YSL Museum)
The entry of a new year means the arrival of a new calendar of exhibitions and events in the main fashion cities. From New York and London to Paris and Madrid, these are the five essential exhibitions in 2024.
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Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
The Met
Where? The Met Museum, New York
When? From May 10 to September 2, 2024
The annual exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York marks the theme of the Met Gala, the most anticipated event of the year in the world of fashion. This event, with a specific theme each year, will cover Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion in 2024.
The term “sleeping beauties” refers to the garments that, as a metaphor for fragility and ephemerality, are found in the museum kept in glass “coffins”. The exhibition displays 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries of history. Among the designers, brands such as Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Elsa Schiaparelli and Christian Dior stand out.
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YSL Museum
Where? Yves Saint Laurent Museum, Paris
When? From February 9 to August 25, 2024
The universe of transparency in the creations of Yves Saint Laurent is the main theme of the exhibition. Explore, through the designer’s eyes, how his artistic sense changed fashion and the way women dressed. “Transparencies seem incompatible with the function of clothing to cover, hide or protect the body. Attracted by this contradiction, YSL began using lace, tulle and chiffon in the 1960s,” he says.
Among the selection of 40 textile pieces, there are various iconic garments from the brand that claimed the liberation of the female body, such as the first transparent blouse. In addition, essential elements of the author’s creative process are shown: sketches, patterns, photographs…
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Naomi
V&A Museum
Where? Victoria and Albert Museum, London
When? From June 22, 2024 to April 6, 2025
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) will chronicle the career and life of one of the undisputed icons of the catwalk: Naomi Campbell. The exhibition, titled Naomi, will feature more than 100 iconic looks throughout her 40 years of profession in which names such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Azzedine Alaïa, Alexander McQueen and Chanel will appear. Campbell makes history; It is the first time that the Victoria and Albert Museum has paid tribute to a model.
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Turismo Madrid
Where? Costume Museum, Madrid
When? Until March 17, 2024
The Costume Museum prepares Jeans, from the street to the Ritz, a journey through the history of denim fabric and denim garments. The exhibition has 200 garments that show the evolution of this material, from its origins, the birth of jeans, to the present day.
The title is inspired by the famous phrase by Yves Saint Laurent: “Down with the Ritz! Long live the street!” “The exhibition shows how jeans, with their enormous versatility and their role as absolute kings of the street, would end up taking over the Ritz in their own right,” explains the Costume Museum.
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La mode en mouvement
Palais Galliera
Where? Palais Galliera Museum, Paris
When? Until September 7, 2025
Ahead of the Paris Olympic Games, the Palais Galliera combines sport and fashion in an exhibition that reflects on the relationship of these two disciplines, and cultural changes and the way in which fashion dresses the body in movement. A tour with some 200 works that reviews four centuries of fashion history.
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