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10 Jan

The Design Museum Readies ‘The Offbeat Sari’ for Spring 2023

The Design Museum Readies ‘The Offbeat Sari’ for Spring 2023
LONDON — Design beyond design. The Design Museum in London’s Kensington will likely be hosting the primary large-scale exhibition within the U.K. on the Indian sari, titled “The Offbeat Sari.” The exhibition will run from May 19 to Sept. 17 with tickets on sale now. Priya Khanchandani, the museum’s head of curatorial, leads the showcase, which is able to bring together greater than 90 examples of saris on loan from designers and studios across India. “There’s an enormous South Asian diaspora here in London, so Indian fashion obviously connects with them, but I feel the cultural sector is changing and folks from different backgrounds with different voices are being given the chance to inform different stories,” Khanchandani told WWD on the press conference for...
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7 Jan

Ozwald Boateng Hits the Runway With Design Debut for

Ozwald Boateng Hits the Runway With Design Debut for
LONDON — Ozwald Boateng has given latest intending to runway design with the debut of his first clothes and niknaks collection for British Airways staff. The Savile Row tailor has created the primary latest uniforms for in-flight and ground staff in nearly 20 years. The last designer to decorate the staff was Julien Macdonald. The uniforms, which have been constructed from bespoke, easy-care fabrics, have been an extended time coming. Boateng began working on them in 2018, but bumped into delays in the course of the pandemic when the airline grounded its fleet and temporarily suspended staff. Over the past 4 years, he’s treated the job like a high-security mission, shadowing BA staff of their various roles; conducting “secret trials on the...
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28 Dec

Pierpaolo Piccioli Scoops Top Design Prize at Fashion Awards

Pierpaolo Piccioli Scoops Top Design Prize at Fashion Awards
Pierpaolo Piccioli Scoops Top Design LONDON – Pierpaolo Piccioli Scoops Top Design Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli scooped the highest prize at the Fashion Awards on Monday night at Royal Albert Hall. Designer of the 12 months is chosen by a world judging panel made up of 1,000 industry figures, and this yr the opposite candidates were Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson and Loewe; Matthieu Blazy for Bottega Veneta; Miuccia Prada. Demna for Balenciaga had until recently been a candidate for the prize, but he and the brand pulled out of the ceremony because of the continuing controversy over two Balenciaga ad campaigns involving children and pornography. Each Balenciaga and Demna have apologized for the ads. Demna had been viewed as a frontrunner for...
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