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Erdem wins at Beazley Designs of the Year

London Fashion Week designer Erdem has been honoured for his innovative Royal Ballet costumes at the 2018 Beazley Design of the Year, an annual award and exhibition run by London's Design Museum. Womenswear designer Erdem Moralıoğlu was named as the fashion category winner for 2018 for the 24 costumes he designed for the Royal Ballet and...

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Video: See inside the Azzedine Alaïa exhibition at the Design Museum

The first-ever UK show dedicated to Tunisian-born master couturier Azzedine Alaïa has opened at the Design Museum in London and FashionUnited got access before the opening to take you on a three minute tour of the amazing couture pieces on display. The ‘Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier’ exhibition marks the Design Museum’s first fashion exhibition...

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Inside Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier exhibition

On May 10, the Design Museum opens its first fashion exhibition in it’s new home in Kensington, with a show dedicated to Tunisian-born master couturier Azzedine Alaïa, who died suddenly in November 2017. This isn’t however a retrospective of the designer’s life and career, instead ‘Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier’ is a celebration of the legendary...

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Nike’s Pro Hijab among Design of the Year winners

The Design Museum in London has named Nike’s Pro Hijab among the winner’s of Design of the Year 2017. Nike’s Pro Hijab was named the winner of the fashion category, as judges felt that the single-layer stretchy high-performance Hijab, designed by Rachel Henry, Baron Brandt, Megan Saalfeld and Brogan Terrell, “could change the face of sport for...

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Aitor Throup at Design Museum

Held as part of the Series of Talks at the Design Museum, Aitor discusses his fascination with anatomy, the importance of placing functionality at the heart of each designed object and his creative use of innovative methods of design and production. In 2008 Throup began a collaboration with Stone Island using a new methodology of garment...

Fashion

Diana Vreeland documentary wins fashion award

The Design Museum has announced the category winners of its prestigious Design of the Year competition, naming the 'Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel' documentary as the Fashion Design of the Year. The feature-length documentary directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, the wife of one of Vreeland's grandsons, Alexander, documents the 50-year...

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Louboutin Retrospective

An exhibition to celebrate Christian Louboutin’s 20th anniversary opens today at the Design Museum, London. The retrospective is the shoe designer’s first exhibition in the UK and it draws inspiration from Louboutin’s assertion that ‘every woman wants to be a showgirl’. Designed by London-based customer experience design company, Household, who...

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Issey Miyake wins Design Museum 'Oscar'

Issey Miyake and Reality Lab, the Japanese designer’s research and development team, have won a coveted “Oscar” from the Design Museum of London. Mr. Miyake’s studio on Tuesday beat the Alexander McQueen wedding gown for the Duchess of Cambridge, created just a year ago by Sarah Burton, as well as a variety of other nominees, including the Cé...

Fashion

Royal wedding dress among longlist for Designs of the Year

The Design Museum has announced the longlist for the fifth annual Designs of the Year awards, with fashion house, Alexander McQueen receiving two nominations. The 2012 longlist features an eclectic mix of designs including the Olympic Torch 2012, a wind-propelledlandmine detonator, as well as the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress, designed by...