Art exhibitions and fashion shows in 2020 that you must see

In this issue we will uncover the major fashion exhibitions and shows devoted to art and its history that are already taking place or will be launch soon. Unrivaled fashion expositions that are worthy of attention, even if you are not into fashion.

Prada. Front and Back at the Design Museum, London Will be opened in September 2020 The first major museum exhibition of one of the world’s most influential fashion houses. The London Design Museum is preparing to honor Prada. Front and Back is the first large museum retrospective dedicated exclusively to this fashion house. Different sections will reflect the idea of front and back, conveying both the surface of fashion and the creative and industrial infrastructure on which it depends, but the focus will be on the achievements of Miucci Prada - how she managed to make the family brand as it is now, progressive and with hit collections season by season. “There is no future without the past” an exposition will be built around this idea: they will study the time that has already passed and reveal future plans.

About time: fashion and duration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York May 7, 2020 - September 7, 2020 The largest fashion exhibition is traditionally held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The film “Orlando” (1992), directed by Sally Porter based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, inspired the exhibition. Its heroine travels in time, living several lives in parallel. And, as curator Andrew Bolton notes, the history of fashion with all the variety of styles coexisting with each other is very similar to this plot and, in general, to Wolfe’s entire work. “About Time: Fashion and Duration is a reinterpretation of the history of fashion, which is fragmented, intermittent and heterogeneous,” summarizes Bolton.

Bags: inside out at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London April 25, 2020 - January 31, 2021 The bag at the exhibition is considered not as a utilitarian accessory, but as a real cultural phenomenon. The exposition includes three sections: the first is devoted to the functionality of the bag, the second to its status, the third to design and the production process. In total, they will show about 300 objects of different historical periods, starting from the 16th century. In particular, the iconic Lady Dior and Hermes Birkin, handbags that became popular thanks to Kerry Bradshaw, Kim Kardashian and other celebrities (fictional and real), as well as handbags like “I am not a plastic bag” by Ani Hindmarch.

Fast Fashion. The dark side of fashion at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin September 27, 2019 - August 2, 2020 The Berlin Museum of European Cultures continues the most topical fashion exhibition. The exhibition demonstrates the damage that the fast fashion industry does to those who are in it and to nature. You won’t see no beautiful pictures, but you will learn a lot of terrible facts about how much pure water is used to make one pair of pants, in what terrible conditions people work sometimes, or why a T-shirt cannot cost like a cup of cappuccino. The main goal of the organizers is to make people reconsider their approach to consumption. This exhibition will benefit everyone who has just stepped on the path of awareness and needs motivation.