5 fashion exhibitions to visit in Europe
A museum in Milan, Florence, London, Paris and Antwerp and an outfit to visit it
G-Club
November 12th, 2021
November 12th, 2021
In the new normality fashion is in sharp recovery. The exclusively digital experiences decrease, the runways are back live and also museums have reopened the doors to visitors. The return to travel seemed a year ago and now that finally moving around Europe is possible again why not combine the passion for fashion with that for travel and discover new themed exhibitions around Europe? Be ready to take notes of the destinations with the most unmissable fashion culture events of autumn 2021, together with some styling advice for the right outfit to pack!
Thierry Mugler: Couturissime in Paris
Paris is the first city where many have chosen to return as soon as possible. City of art and fashion, could not miss among the destinations of the traveling retrospective dedicated to Thierry Mugler. Visionary then, more than contemporary today, he was the first to show a singer on the catwalk in 1991, Diana Ross and perhaps to him a young Englishman will be inspired to turn women into chimeras inspired by nature. Inaugurated at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on 30 September, Mugler Couturissime will be open until 24 April 2022, hosting 140 creations by the designer who made women’s empowerment his signature.
Bags: Inside Out in London
The bags that have made history on display at "Bags: Inside Out" exhibition, held at the Victoria&albert Museum in London until 16 January 2022 in the Anglo-Saxon fashion capital. The exhibition tells some curiosities about the royal family's bags, narrates the evolution of the bag from the ancestor of the belt bags worn by the rulers of the late 800, to the Louis Vuitton trunks of the early 900. Its evolution, told through the function and status, design and realization makes concrete what these objects represent a container for objects and desires of every woman.
The Momu in Antwerp
For lovers of fashion history infatuated with "the Antwerp Six" this exhibition is all you could wish for. If the group doesn’t sound familiar, it’s time to book a flight to Belgium. Ann Demeulemeester, Dries van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Walter van Beirendonck, Dirk van Saene and Marina Yee are just some of the names at Momu. Here the creations of former and new students of the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and other names from all over the world, will be mixed with invitations of fashion shows and archive images that enrich the new area of the museum. The collection will be part of the permanent exhibition of the museum from September 4, 2021 to follow, but it is not a good reason to wait any longer.
Emporio Armani’s 40th anniversary in Milan
An unmissable European destination for a fashion trip, Milan a metropolis that never stops, as unstoppable as Giorgio Armani, from Milan by choice. It was 2015 when King George gave the Italian fashion capital Armani Silos, in his HQ in Via Bergognone, celebrating 40 years of career. Today, in 2021, his second Emporio Armani line celebrates its 40th anniversary, to which he dedicates a special retrospective. If what distinguishes Armani is to remain true to himself while constantly changing, Emporio is the most contemporary and attentive to the changes that expresses The Way We Are as the title of the exhibition says. The lucky Armani eagle continues to fly high and inaugurated fashion week of September with the exhibition, that will be accessible until 6 February 2022.
Silk - Museo Ferragamo in Florence
He dressed the feet of the most desired women in Hollywood and never forgot his origins. Since 1995 the Florentine capital has hosted the Ferragamo Museum, where this year the exhibition Seta is in progress, a visual narrative that tells the story of the most precious yarn according to Salvatore Ferragamo. The museum lives through the intent of Wanda and Fiamma Ferragamo to communicate the history of man and that of the company that opens to the most current topics of the moment. Seta will tell the story of Fulvia who in the seventies implemented the creation of scarves and ties inspired by the oriental art of the twentieth century. The exhibition will be staged inside the Palazzo Spini Feroni until 18 April 2022.
