‘Essential Accessories: Handbags and Heels’ at The Lightbox museum in Surrey The exhibit spans the 16th century until today, and we’re treated to a look at just how little has changed! Accessories have always been indicators of the wearer’s wealth, taste, social status…   Leather handbag with enamel cover, France, c1915, ‘Camata’ Manolo Blahnik, 2000-2001, [...]

Madame Grès: Couture at Work at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris, through July 24. “I wanted to be a sculptor — for me it is just the same to work with fabric or stone.” – Madame Grès The show is comprised of 80 couture pieces, including creations for the Duchess of Orleans and the Duchess [...]

The Fondation Pierre Bergé in Paris presents the long-awaited retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent’s ready-to-wear revolution, the Rive Gauche label. Saint Laurent rive gauche: La révolution de la mode Imagine a time when women weren’t allowed to wear trousers in any kind of formal setting, even the workplace, where fashion was a domain strictly reserved [...]

Brush up on your fashion history, just in time for Fashion Week… Tom Ford for Gucci, Autumn/Winter 1996 We believe that it’s more than coincidence that ’90s styles are trendy again. Just as the longer skirts and grunge spirit were in reaction to the glitzy, flashy looks and ultra short skirts of the 1980s, they [...]

Feast your eyes on this! There’s an amazing exhibition of Chinese Imperial robes through the 27th of February at London’s V&A Museum… The show spans three centuries of Chinese emperors and the royal family’s clothing, and includes more than 50 clothing items, plus accessories and textiles to complete the look! Because the textile weaving and [...]