Women in print: 150 years of Liberty textiles
In celebration of Liberty’s one hundred and fiftieth and the gallery’s seventy fifth anniversary (in 2025) this exhibition highlights the position of girls as textile designers at Liberty, from May Morris and the humanities and crafts motion up till the current day. Through showcasing clothes, materials and pictures the exhibition hopes to encourage a brand new technology of designers with native initiatives with colleges. The museum itself has simply undergone refurbishment and being solely in Walthamstow, is a weekend journey worth the tube journey.
Address: The William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Rd, London E17 4PP
Website: wmgallery.org.uk
Price: Free
Dates: Present – 12 June 2026
The Antwerp Six
The first main exhibition devoted to the six fashion designers accountable for placing Antwerp on the fashion map. Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee, who all studied collectively on the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, offered their collections in 1986 on the British Designer Show, and the remaining, they are saying, is historical past. In 2014 I used to be mesmerized by Dries Van Noten’s work at his stand alone exhibition ‘Inspirations’ on the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, so I’m greater than excited to see his work alongside his contemporaries and study extra about their affect on the broader fashion group we all know at this time.
Address: MoMu Amsterdam, Hobbemastraat 1, 1071 ZD Amsterdam
Website: momu.be
Price: General admission €8 (Rs855); concessions obtainable
Dates: 28 March 2026 – 17 January 2027
Costume Art
The Costume Institute’s present, heralded yearly with the movie star crammed Met Gala crimson carpet, would be the first one exhibited in the brand new fashion area in the centre of the Metropolitan Museum. To rejoice the exhibition will discover the connection between the artwork, from the museum’s huge assortment, and fashion to disclose the connection between garments and the physique. With a large reaching material, the objects on show will cowl work, sculpture, 18th century clothes and trendy catwalk appears to be like. A specific spotlight ought to be Renata Buzzo’s “Corset Anatomia”, a gown that higher resembles the anatomy of a physique than a celebration outfit. Earlier in the 12 months in NYC and exploring comparable themes is the Art X Fashion exhibition on the Museum on the Fashion Institute of Technology, so there’s no danger of a visit to the large apple and not using a fashion artwork repair.
Address: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 fifth Ave, New York, NY 10028
Website: metmuseum.org
Price: Free with museum admission
Dates: 10 May 2026 – 10 January 2027
Many Shades of Grès
Berlin’s museum of ornamental arts and School of Culture and Design are placing on this joint exhibition to carry the Parisian couturier Madame Gres’s work to a German viewers for the primary time. Famous in the Nineteen Thirties for her pleated robes impressed by historic statues (Gres was a formally educated sculptor), she was shut down by the German occupation in Paris for refusing to decorate the Nazi’s wives in utilitarian garments and fled to the Pyrenees. Upon returning after the struggle she constructed her enterprise again, finally turning into President of Chambre Syndicale of Paris Couture in 1972 and profitable their highest award the Dé d’Or (Golden Thimble) in 1976. This exhibition will show Gres’s robes from the latter a part of her profession and provide an alternate museum journey to the same old historic sights of Berlin, though the museum does home a terrific assortment of outdated grasp work.
Address: Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin
Website: smb.museum
Dates: 15 May 2026 – 11 October 2026
The Gentleman – Men’s Style and Jewellery
In the center of Milan’s fashion district and behind the Four Season’s lodge is the Palazzo Morando – a historic museum which homes town’s costume and fashion assortment. The museum covers the early seventeenth century as much as the millennium and this exhibition is not any completely different. It appears to be like on the typically missed and continually altering cultural and symbolic significance of males’s jewelry inside costume historical past. With males’s fashion week returning to Milan in June, it’s an ideal time to swat up on their road model via the ages. (*10*).
Address: Palazzo Morando, Costume Moda Immagine, Via Sant’Andrea, 6, 20121 Milano
Website: abbonamentomusei.it
Price: Free
Dates: 16 January 2026 – 27 September 2026