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4 Dec

Dakota Johnson on Maude Exhibit at Miami Museum of

Dakota Johnson on Maude Exhibit at Miami Museum of
Maude is exploring 100 years of history at the brand new Museum of Sex.  The Museum of Sex previewed its second location in Miami on Friday and can open to the general public in January 2024. The flagship opened in Recent York City in 2002.  Maude founder Éva Goicochea and inventive director and actress Dakota Johnson have curated an exhibit called “Modern Sex: 100 Years of Design and Decency,” which was previewed on the museum this past weekend. The gathering, which incorporates greater than 500 artifacts, explores restrictions around sexual wellness dating back to the Nineteen Twenties. The exhibit is organized by decade. “It’s a little bit of a twilight zone to think about how far we’ve come and yet by no means,”...
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9 Jul

The Museum Gift Shop Gets a Fashion Makeover as

The Museum Gift Shop Gets a Fashion Makeover as
The museum gift shop is becoming a full-fledged fashion destination for the primary time. Because the “Africa Fashion” exhibit opens on the Brooklyn Museum Friday, Alára, West Africa’s first fashion, luxury and lifestyle concept store, will open as a boutique beside it. The link-up with the museum is the Lagos, Nigeria-based store’s first foray outside of Africa, and founder Reni Folawiyo felt it was time to present the eight-year-old concept shop global reach. “Alára is a celebration of Africa, a celebration of Africans, an education for us in addition to other people on the planet. It represents an elevation of all the pieces that we do,” Folawiyo told WWD. “’Alára’ means the wondrous performer, one which thrills endlessly [in the Yoruba language]. For...
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22 Jun

Expanded ‘Africa Fashion’ Exhibit Opens at Brooklyn Museum –

Expanded ‘Africa Fashion’ Exhibit Opens at Brooklyn Museum –
Lexie Moreland/WWD A mannequin stands with head tilted, a knee jutting from the deep bias chiffon and woven fabric hemline of Papa Oppong’s Takari T, a T-shirt worn as a dress from the Ghanaian-born designer’s celebrated 2021 Yopoo collection, which evokes a Ghanaian woman’s life from birth to marriage to death. A “Ghana Must Go” bag — the ever-present blue, white and red reusable bags which have come to symbolize the forced migration of tens of millions of Ghanaians from Nigeria — sits on the ground next to the mannequin. It’s considered one of two looks from Oppong included within the Brooklyn Museum’s iteration of “Africa Fashion,” the blockbuster exhibition that opened last summer at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and which...
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14 Jun

Van Gogh Museum Honored With Licensing Award

Van Gogh Museum Honored With Licensing Award
WAY TO GOGH: Greater than a century after the artist Vincent Van Gogh’s death, his work continues to reel in visitors to museums, cultural institutes and tourist-heavy destinations just like the immersive “Beyond Van Gogh” experience. The latter is heading to Los Angeles this summer, having already been staged in London; Brussels; Washington, D.C.; Seattle, and other cities. Art and commerce are entwined like never before and apparently that may result in honors. The Van Gogh Museum locked up a Licensing International Excellence Award for Best Brand — Art, Design, Museum on the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Celebrating its fiftieth 12 months, the Amsterdam museum is being honored for its Van Gogh-inspired brand licensing, which attracts upon its...
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