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Top 20 Fashion Exhibitions in 2016

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Top 20 Fashion Exhibitions in 2016

David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger and Maudie James by Cecil Beaton, 1968, Part of the upcoming Vogue 100: A Century of Style at the National Portrait Gallery, London
(The Condé Nast Publications Ltd.)
While 2015 will be remembered for the stunning China Through the Looking Glass exhibition at the Met in New York and the queue-around-the-block Savage Beauty exhibition of Alexander McQueen’s creations at the V&A in London, 2016 is already promising to be another year of fabulous fashion exhibitions.
Futuristic fashion and new technologies will be ‘a l’honneur,’ with a major retrospective of Issey Miyake in Tokyo, and exhibitions of Manus x machina at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and #techstyle at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Meanwhile, a major exhibition on 300 years of fashion at les Art Décoratifs in Paris promises to be a must-see, as will retrospectives on Oscar de la Renta and Isaac Mizrahi.
Click on our slideshow to learn more about these and the rest of our top 20 fashion exhibitions.

                       
                        



Vogue 100: A Century of Style, National Portrait Gallery, London
February 11 through May 22, 2016,
A major exhibition tracing the breadth and depth of work commissioned by the magazine, providing a unique perspective on cultural changes as they were reflected in its pages. Visitors will be able to view Peter Lindbergh’s famed 1990s cover shots of supermodels, as well as prints from the 1993 Corinne Day editorial featuring an adolescent Kate Moss in her knickers that helped usher in the “grunge” era.



#techstyle, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
March 6 through July 10, 2016
The exhibition draws on the MFA’s collection of contemporary fashion featuring key pieces from innovators such as Alexander McQueen and Iris van Herpen.

The Work of Issey Miyake, the National Art Center, Tokyo
March 16 through June 13, 2016
A major retrospective of the work of the innovative designer who has pushed innovative use of fabrics and techniques. Highlights will include a large section devoted to his Pleats Please creations.
National Art Center, Tokyo

Undressed: A brief history of underwear, V&A, London
April 16 through March 12, 2017
From the corsets and camisoles, girdles and garters to the latest barely-there nightie, this exhibition will offer more than 200 examples of women’s and men’s underwear investigating how their designs have combined the practical and personal with the sensory and fashionable.
Manus x machina, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 5 through August 14, 2016
This exhibition will span more than 200 years of sartorial history and explores the impact of new technology on fashion examining how designers reconciled handmade and machine made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. Also featured will be the latest in new technologies used including 3D printing, laser cutting, thermo shaping, computer modeling, ultrasonic welding, and laminating.
Antonio Lopez: Future, Funk, Fashion On View, el Museo del Barrio, New York
May 25 through  September 17, 2016
The famed fashion illustrator dominated editorials in the 1970s and '80s and this exhibition will feature his drawings, instamatic photographs, and portraits of various fashion world luminaries created in his exploration of race, gender, and the body through fashion.
Counterculture Now, Somerset House, London
July 4 through August 29, 2016
This exhibition will explore how counter culture manifests itself today, charting counter cultural movements through art, clothes, and photography since the start of the new millennium.
Proust's Duchess, the Museum at FIT, New York
September 2016 – January 3, 2017
This exhibition, recently seen in Paris, focuses on the wardrobe of Élisabeth, Comtesse de Greffulhe, the inspiration for Marcel Proust’s character the Duchesse de Guermantes in his novel, In Search of Lost Time.

The Vulgar, the Barbican
October 13, 2016 through February, 5 2017
The exhibition explores notions of vulgarity in the fashions from its early origins to the present day. Renaissance objects will sit alongside pieces of 21st-century couture.



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