Links were loving: The fashion week we missed
After a week of sombre news, here’s a round-up of fashion-forward stories from the world of art and culture to inspire us.
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Fashion rightfully took a back seat this week, as the world's eyes turned elsewhere. So we’ve distilled some of the most interesting stories from the runway for your prêt-à-porter pleasure.
Recalling Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, Virgil Abloh’s final couture show kicked off Paris Men’s Fashion week, with a model carrying a white flag, emblazoned with the words “Question Everything”. Reviews were positive, but not as positive as the ones for his 2019 MAC exhibition, which is set to open at the Brooklyn Museum later this year.
From postcards to peau de soie, the late great folk artist Joseph E. Yoakum is making his Paris debut this season, courtesy the designers at Lemaire, who have translated his landscapes into textiles. His solo exhibition at MOMA closes later this month − Lyle Rexer’s review, and this CBS report, shows us what we missed.
Dior's affirmed feminist designer Maria Grazia Chiuri had guests at her Tuileries Gardens fashion show seeing double, thanks to wall-to-wall artworks by Italian contemporary artist Mariella Bettineschi, whose reimagined portraits of famous women all include two sets of eyes.
As the Musée d’Orsay prepares to host its first fashion show on March 7, six other Paris museums have joined forces to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first eponymous collection, including the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée National Picasso–Paris, and, of course, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, all focusing on different themes, from colour to literature to French craftsmanship.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has announced that for its forthcoming exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, they’ve invited eight film directors, including Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash and Martin Scorsese, to create “cinematic vignettes” in the period rooms of the museum’s American wing.
Wish you were there? We do. Which is why we’ve booked our tickets for a virtual tour of the McCord Museum’s exhibition, Parachute: Subversive Fashion of the ‘80s, happening March 26. And why we’re checking out Bead n’ Butter, the Winnipeg-based Métis artist Jessie Pruden’s beaded accessories that went from pandemic pivot to Paris runway.
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