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6 Apr

Jane Goodall Sells Out Brooklyn Museum, Steps for Shea:

When in Brooklyn: Jane Goodall, renowned ethologist and conservationist, made a special appearance on the Brooklyn Museum Tuesday night. Recently celebrating her 89th birthday on Monday, the primatologist appeared alongside media company The Meteor for “A Night of Hope in Motion: Dr. Jane Goodall and Friends.” On the event, she shared her message of hope, surrounded by Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots and Shoots youth program and activists, amongst them 24-year-old Pakistani American climate advocate Ayisha Siddiqa and Sanchali Pal, chief executive officer of Commons, a private carbon footprint-tracking app. Brooklyn will keep the highlight on climate when the Brooklyn Style Foundation presents its seventeenth annual Fashion Week Brooklyn event April 9 to fifteen. Themed to the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop fashion,...
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29 Mar

Claire McCardell’s American Style to Be Spotlighted at Museum

The renewed interest within the work of Claire McCardell continues to be going strong, with the Museum at FIT gearing up for Wednesday’s opening of “Claire McCardell: Practicality, Liberation, Innovation.” Many years have passed because the designer pioneered the American look, but her influence on American sportswear prevails. Zippers, pockets, ballet flats and wrap dresses were all a part of the designer’s arsenals of firsts. Tory Burch, whose spring-summer 2022 collection was inspired by McCardell, is a champion of her work. In some way, 65 years after her death in 1958 on the age of 52, the designer’s work is gaining more interest with recent generations of creatives. Strong-willed and pragmatic, McCardell’s indelible mark — the understated (but not undone) casual American...
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10 Jan

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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9 Jan

Paris Museum to Showcase Azzedine Alaïa’s Collection of Vintage

TREASURE TROVE: Palais Galliera is staging one other Azzedine Alaïa retrospective this yr — only this time, it should focus not on his own designs, but on his vast personal collection of high fashion garments. Titled “Azzedine Alaïa, couturier collectionneur” (“Azzedine Alaïa: Couturier, collector,”) the exhibition will run on the Paris City Hall-backed fashion museum from Sept. 27 until Jan. 21, 2024. This follows an Alaïa retrospective held on the museum in 2013 to coincide with its reopening after 4 years of renovations. The show will draw on an archive of 20,000 garments amassed by the late Tunisian designer, said Olivier Saillard, director of the Association Azzedine Alaïa and curator of the exhibition. They include pieces by the likes of Madeleine Vionnet,...
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