London’s art and fashion worlds came together today at a press preview for Tate Britain’s autumn blockbuster The 90s: Art and Fashion (8 October 2026 -14 February 2027). The highly anticipated show promises to explore “this period’s surge of creative energy” under the expert eye of former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful, a leading light of the seismic decade in question. Enninful introduced the exhibition in the sumptuous setting of The Groucho Club- a famed 90s Soho haunt- telling the assembled crowd that it was the first time he’d seen the fabled hotspot in the daytime.
“What defined that period was an energy and a refusal of hierarchy,” he told the press, pointing out that this is “not just a reflection of the YBA (Young British Artists) moment” which is “part of the story, not the whole story”. Dominique Heyse-Moore, one of the exhibition curators, presented key works and artists in the show, from Damien Hirst to Corinne Day, Helen Chadwick and Jenny Saville. Girl power rules (even at a Tate briefing) with Enninful quipping that the all-women curatorial team are Tate’s equivalent of the Spice Girls.