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Exhibition in Brooklyn to display Frida Kahlo’s clothing and accessories

Frida Kahlo’s distinctive style is as famous and inspiring as her works of art, which is why the Brooklyn Museum has made sure to display clothing and accessories alongside her paintings, drawings and photographs in the largest US exhibition in ten years dedicated to the Mexican artist, set to be held from February 8 until May 12. Titled Frida...

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In Pictures: “David Bowie Is” Half a Century of Fashion

Wearing kaleidoscopic knitwear, the sharpest of tailoring, theatrical makeup, ladies’ and gents’ headwear and jewelry, David Bowie boldly dominated the fashion landscape throughout most of his lifetime, and continues to do so several years after his death. While his influence still ripples across runways, the “David Bowie Is” exhibit finally...

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"David Bowie Is" comes home, New York its final stop

”David Bowie Is,” the exhibit, has toured the world and makes its final stop in the place David Bowie called home with wife Iman for the last two decades of his life, New York City. After the Victoria and Albert’s record-breaking opening run, the globetrotting carnival of curiosities visited Toronto, Sao Paolo, Berlin, Chicago, Paris, Melbourne,...

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Opening Ceremony pop-up at Brooklyn Museum

'New York-based brand Opening Ceremony have opened a pop-up boutique at the Brooklyn Museum to accompany the museum’s exhibition "Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present," one of the first museum exhibitions to put sports photographers in the forefront and is the most comprehensive presentation of sports photography ever...