Global fashion exhibitions in 2024
Are you hoping to incorporate some cultural elements into your next vacation but are having trouble coming up with ideas? Mam-e helps you find the best fashion exhibitions that are going to happen during the year of 2024.
Fashion exhibitions which should not be missed worldwide this year
Exhibitions in the United Kingdom
The first recommendation we present you the Design Museum in London has an exhibition featuring the creations of 300 promising designers. “Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion” highlights the distinctive fashion scene in London. Stars including JW Anderson, Christopher Kane, Molly Goddard, Steven Stokey Daley, Harri, Craig Green, Meadham Kirchhoff, Wales Bonner, and Sinéad O’Dwyer will have their looks on display. The show also commemorates the NewGen program of the British Fashion Council’s 30th anniversary.
Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion will remain on display through February 11, 2024.
Following the topic, this is one is at the V&A Museum honoring the design of French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. The book “Gabrielle Chanel, Fashion Manifesto” centers on the establishment of the fashion house Chanel as well as the development of the designer’s recognizable aesthetic, which still has an impact on how women dress today.
Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto will remain on display through February 28, 2024.
The “Diva” exhibition is currently on display at the V&A Museum in London before traveling to a number of other locations. Those who are interested in learning more about what the word “diva” means should definitely look here. The show investigates and reinterprets the once contentious term, which originally meant “goddess,” as well as how performance culture has embraced it. Exhibited are more than sixty ensembles and outfit designs created by renowned fashion houses and donned by celebrities like Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Tina Turner, Maria Carey, Shirley Bassey, Cher, and Elton John.
Up until April 7, 2024, the Diva exhibition will be open for viewing.
We carry on toward Oxfordshire’s Woodstock. Vivienne Westwood, Bruce Oldfield, and Stella McCartney are just a few of the British fashion icons that are being highlighted at Blenheim Palace. The show honors both historical and contemporary fashion, and it’s reportedly the biggest to date. Administrator of Blenheim Palace’s palace and collections Kate Ballenger earlier said in a statement: “‘Icons of British Fashion’ is the first of its kind at Blenheim Palace and we are immensely proud to be collaborating with some of the world’s most celebrated designers and brands to bring together a collection of garments, accessories and artefacts.”
The exhibition will be open for viewing from March 23, 2024, to June 30, 2024.
After watching the Barbie movie, those who can’t get enough of the fashion doll can explore the Barbie universe even more at the London Design Museum. Beginning in the summer, the museum will feature a 65-year timeline of the well-known doll. Ruth Handler wanted to write a different story for her daughter Barbara, which is how Barbie’s legacy started in 1959. The exhibition looks at how one of the most well-known dolls in the world has changed over time through the design of clothing, furniture, cars, and architecture. The Design Museum obtained access to the Barbie archives in California for the long-awaited exhibition.
The Barbie exhibition is scheduled to run from July 5, 2024, through February 23, 2025.
Exhibitions in the US
‘Women Dressing Women’ is an exhibition by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) that celebrates women designers. The exhibition, which celebrates the creativity and legacy of these individuals, includes about 80 pieces designed by over 70 designers. Furthermore, it depicts women’s fashion houses from the twentieth century to the present. Which designers are going to be featured? Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, Gabriela Hearst, Claire McCardell, Miuccia Prada, and Vivienne Westwood are a few of the names that come to mind.
The exhibition Women Dressing Women will be on display until March 3, 2024.
A statement sleeve: what is it? The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is asking itself this very question. Up to eighty fashion pieces are on display in an exhibition that unveils the solution. Designers including Balenciaga, Tom Ford, Schiaparelli, Vivienne Westwood, and Thierry Mugler are among those whose creations can be found in “Statement Sleeves.” You will explore how sleeves function as a significant means of self-expression, reflecting movements, gestures, and particular fashion eras, as the exhibition takes you through.
The Statement Sleeves exhibition is scheduled to run from January 24, 2024, through August 25, 2024.
The MET will also be hosting the exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” in the spring. The exhibition uses nature as a metaphor for “temporary fashion” as it explores ideas of “rebirth” and “renewal.” In order ‘to revive and explore the sensory capacities of masterpieces in the museum’s collection,’ the exhibition features research, conservation analysis, and a variety of technologies. X-rays, video animation, light projection, soundscapes, augmented reality, and computer-generated imagery will all be utilized. There will be 250 clothes and accessories from four centuries on show.
From May 10 to September 2, 2024, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion will be on display.
Exhibitions in Europe
Diane von Fürstenberg could have a special exhibition to kick off the new year. ‘Diane von Fürstenberg. Women Before Fashion’, her first European exhibition, is currently on view at the Fashion & Lace Museum in Brussels. The curator searched through her personal collection for this show, most of which consisted of items she lent out. The well-known wrap dress, a design that not only helped the designer realize the American dream but also came to represent strength and freedom all over the world, is undoubtedly the unifying factor.
Diane von Fürstenberg: Women Before Fashion will be on display through January 7, 2024.
Visitors that are interested in the history of British customs and trends, particularly in the works of Vivienne Westwood, should not miss the ‘Royals & Rebels’ exhibition. As stated during the press preview, it’s an exhibition with a “bitter edge.” Royals & Rebels takes you on a tour of the various customs and attire requirements of the nation. In addition to showcasing works by well-known artists like Paul Smith, Gareth Pugh, Simone Rocha, and Katharine Hamnett, the exhibition also gives up-and-coming artists like Bora Aksu, Robert Wun, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, and Matty Bovan a chance to shine.
Up until January 7, 2024, the Royals & Rebels exhibition will be on display.
If you’re a music lover as well as clothes industry, and you have The Rolling Stones on your Spotify “Wrapped,” it might be worthwhile to visit the northern part of the Netherlands. ‘The Rolling Stones – Unzipped’ is on display at the Groninger Museum. Anyone who even slightly knows about the British rock group understands that The Stones’ reputation is greatly influenced by artists, filmmakers, and fashion designers in addition to their music. Despite having a horde of creative support, one might assume that the legendary band received a lot of assistance in designing their image, but this is untrue, according to designers like Tommy Hilfiger and Anna Sui. They claimed that the rock group created their own music and let their in-house creatives help them bring it to life.
The exhibition Rolling Stones – Unzipped will remain open until January 21, 2024.
Hasselt, Belgium, is about a forty-minute drive from Maastricht, the Netherlands. ‘We Need To Talk About Fashion’ is an intriguing exhibition currently on display there. It won’t take long for someone entering the Fashion Museum to hear a tape playing and cringe. “What do you have on? Ha, ha, ha. It prompts guests to consider how we evaluate or condemn one another—as well as ourselves—based just on our appearance. Through the use of soundscapes, slogans, and silhouettes, the museum challenges both its own collection and our own clothing. For sure one of the best fashion exhibitions that makes us think about our actions and words.
We Need To Talk About Fashion will remain open until February 18, 2024.
If you want to see a display of fine craftsmanship and tailoring, you should plan a trip to Milan. This is the “Tailoring School” exhibition. There’s a journey into education waiting for you. For this exhibition, the museums Triennale Milano and Kito collaborated, providing an insight into the academy that opened in 2000 as well as narrating the tale of the rich history and cultural legacy of Neapolitan tailoring that the school embodies.
The Tailoring School exhibition. The exhibition A Journey into Education will be open from January 12–16, 2024.
The travelling exhibition ‘Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses’ is currently on show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Van Herpen creates more than a hundred creations that bring his universe to life. In a time when climate change is upending our consumption habits, her experiments with textiles and technology toy with the idea of rethinking fashion and giving it a future. Through the world of the designer, who produces futuristic fashion that might be considered “strange” if it weren’t for the fact that art is fundamentally strange, the exhibition guides you on a journey from creation to creation.
The Iris van Herpen exhibition. Sculpting the Senses is on display in Paris through April 28.
Germany is honoring the Dutch design team of Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren (Viktor&Rolf) with the “Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Statements” exhibition, which will feature over a hundred of their most striking designs. Additionally, this exhibition is Germany’s first significant retrospective of Viktor & Rolf. The fashion duo’s creations will be on show with a selection of their dolls, which are based on vintage porcelain dolls and are dressed in the most famous pieces that the designers have ever made, one by one, season after season. Furthermore, the exhibition includes a plethora of videos, sketches, and artwork by prominent visual artists, such as Ellen von Unwerth, Andreas Gursky, and Inez&Vinoodh, in addition to specially commissioned animated projections by globally recognized visual effects studio Rodeo FX, known for their work on television shows like Stranger Things, Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings.
From February 23 to October 6, 2024, this exhibition will be on display.
Conclusion: Milan, Oxfordshire, New York, Brussels and Paris are just some of the regions that host the best fashion exhibitions.
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