Fashion + The Arts

Fashion as art 🎨

An exploration of fashion as art, and art influenced by fashion

Is fashion art?

Museo Salvatore Ferragamo

The Delphos Dress

Palazzo Fortuny

Rei Kawakubo's "Art of In-Between"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The disobedient body

The Hepworth Wakefield

From painting to dresses

Fondazione Micol Fontana

Paul Poiret and Raoul Dufy

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gianni Versace's inspirations

Museo del Traje, Madrid

Rhodia collection

MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

Museo Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's wardrobe

How the artist transformed her clothing and medical garments into works of art

Wearing surrealism

Elsa Schiaparelli's surreal designs

Art Nouveau jackets

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elsa Schiaparelli's surreal designs

Transforming fashion

The Victoria and Albert Museum

Elsa Schiaparelli's surreal designs

Surrealist elements

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maiko Takeda's incredible works of fashion art

Japan Fashion and Lifestyle Foundation

Fashion photography in a pre-selfie world 📷

Bruno Benini

Arthur Elgot

David Bailey

Gordon Parks

Carla Sozzani's Photography Collection

Helmut Newton

Condé Nast Archive

Karl Lagerfeld

Irving Penn

David LaChapelle

Otto Stupakoff

Mario Testino

Art & fashion: a powerful combination

Spotlight Story

Fashion & Art: a love affair

Kim Winser explores the relationship between these two creative cultures

Online Exhibit

The influence of fashion in print

ID Magazine's influence on the industry

Bringing performing arts to life

Behind-the-scenes at the Bolshoi Costume department

Dressing Gods and Demons for Khon

Stage costumes of Oman, Somalia and Zanzibar

How Bolshoi Theatre costumes changed over time

Flim, theatre and choreography of Georgia

How couture came to the stage

Royal Shakespeare Company

Style on stage

How fashion through the ages has inspired costume design

The stylish elegance of ballet

A history of the costumes at the Australian Ballet

The designers of the Australian Ballet

The evolution of Swan Lake costumes

10 remarkable tutu designs

The lavish costumes of Sleeping Beauty

Fairytales meet high fashion

ONCE UPON A TIME

Classic fairytales as Haute Couture

The Museum at FIT

Spotlight on: Russian film

Online Exhibit

100 years of Russian film costume

Online Exhibit

Inside the film wardrobe of Peter The Great

Online Exhibit

The fashions of Russia's leading film studio

The original pop stars

Before Beyoncé and Madonna

Museum of Art & Photography

The women of Bollywood

The fashion, the music, the movement

Estanquillo Museum

Mexico's scintillating "tiples" singers

Incredible photographs of Mexico's cabaret-style performers

Fashion + music 🎶

Inside the wardrobe of pop stars

Centre national du costume de scène

Fashion & Hollywood

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Sorelle Fontana: dressing the stars

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The iconic costumes of Carmen Miranda

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Ferragamo and Hollywood's famous feet

Philosophical fashion

From the brilliant minds at South Africa's Social Fabric

Spotlight on: fashion films

INTERVIEW

Nick Knight explains what makes a fantastic fashion film

British Fashion Council

A collision of art and fashion

Anthony Caro: Fashion meets art

Miles Aldridge: Photography and art

Pree: Inspired by David Hockney

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