Fashion
Manga and Camp: the art of going over the top
We talk about Manga, the subject of the British Museum's huge new show, and we explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Camping out for Camp
We caught up with the crowds waiting to spot celebs—particularly Harry Styles—on the red carpet of tonight’s annual Met Gala
Bold, ironic and camp: Met show explores exuberant expression in fashion
Costume Institute's new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion examines camp from the 17th century onwards
Fashion meets art as Casa Loewe launches on New Bond Street
Museum directors mixed with fashionistas last night
Three exhibitions to see in San Francisco this weekend
From a Modernist community on California's northern coast, to the kimono's continuing influence on international fashion
MFA Boston dissects the coded language of gender-bending fashion
Exhibition delves into Western pop culture’s great moments of binary disruption
Jasper Conran buys Yves Saint Laurent's Villa Mabrouka in Tangier
The villa was the fashion designer's home in the last decades of his life
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Nari Ward's breathtaking installations to a sweep of contemporary Nordic art
When Karl Lagerfeld sold his art collection
The fashion designer, who died this week at the age of 85, spent lavishly on decorating his houses in the style of the Ancien Régime
Princess Margaret’s delicate Dior dress conserved for Victoria and Albert Museum show
Stains on the lavishly decorated gown—made for royal's 21st birthday—show that it had gone to some good parties
Grace Wales Bonner explores black spirituality for London show
Mystical rituals lie at the heart of the fashion designer’s first major exhibition taking place at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Close study of fashions in medieval manuscripts is key to understanding interactions of literature and dress
Book of illuminations show various fashions that shed light on literary styles
Charles Dickens’s great expectations about his attire
The esteemed 19th-century author was also a renowned dandy whose passion for fashion increased with his fame and fortune
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Fresh takes on Modernism, colour and two giants of American art
Paul Smith gets wrapped up in the work of the Bauhaus
After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer
San Francisco show celebrates diversity of Muslim fashion
As debates on the burqa rage worldwide, De Young Museum exhibition explores complexities and range of Islamic dress
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
Mika Rottenberg’s surreal world lands in London’s newest space, Goldsmiths CCA, while the “king of cling” Azzedine Alaïa captivates at the Design Museum
London’s National Portrait Gallery to partially close for London Fashion Week event (again)
Decision follows a controversial closure in February for Erdem’s runway show
A 19th-century bikini from Iran goes on show in the UK in time for the summer
The garment was conserved for the Holburne Museum's exhibition of objects collected by the “intrepid” traveller Ellen Tanner
‘How can we judge a work of art that was inspired by a person’s faith?’
The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition
Is nothing sacred? The Metropolitan Museum should apologise to the Vatican for Heavenly Bodies show
Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers
From the archive | Holy inspiration: the Met's Costume Institute finds a divine connection between religion and fashion
The museum's annual gala show examines how the Catholic Church’s aesthetics have influenced designers
Three to see: London
From cabinets of curiosities at the Whitechapel to confronting trauma at the Barbican
