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Kenzo’s creative directors step down from the brand, a museum exhibition dedicated to Olivier Theyskens opens and more.

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The late Azzedine Alaïa clocked in at around five feet tall, but his influence on fashion towered over his diminutive height. The Tunisian designer, who passed away last November, is being honoured in an exhib­ition at the Design Museum in London, England, opening today. Alaïa himself hand-picked over 60 of the garments that will be […]

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T-shirts have always been political. Even 100 years ago, when they were marketed as undergarments, they were part of the U.S. military uniform during the First World War. During the 1950s, wearing them as outerwear or under a leather jacket, à la Marlon Brando or James Dean, became a subversive act. But to participate in […]

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When it comes to investment dressing, a Max Mara coat is in­variably at the top of any fashion savant’s shopping list. With that in mind, the label launched the Atelier collection in 2009. This special project, which continues to this day, has a dedicated design team who continue to reimagine these signature looks. Atelier coats […]

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Say the name “Louis Vuitton” and monogrammed totes, cross-body bags and Damier duffles spring to mind, but travel is where the house got its start. What is now an empire of luxury goods grew from a single Paris storefront, opened in 1854, from which the visionary founder, Mr. Vuitton, outfitted an exclusive class of travellers […]

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With the temperatures finally reaching double digits, it’s beginning to feel like winter is behind us. And thanks to Fleurs de Villes‘ annual Floral Mannequin Series, it’s now looking a lot like spring. ICYMI Fleurs de Villes is a Canadian event planning company co-founded by lifestyle and media gurus Karen Marshall Ducommun and Tina Barkley. […]

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Who says all trends come from the street or runway? Ever since Diana Vreeland invented the blockbuster fashion exhibition during her tenure as a special consultant to the Met’s Costume Institute, curators has kept the fashion-as-art conversation going with the re-discovery of forgotten designers or historical eras. “I try to curate shows that have a relevance to what’s happening in contemporary culture,” explained Andrew Bolton, curator of the Met’s newly renamed Anna Wintour Costume Center, to Another Magazine. “The power of fashion lies in its power to transform identity. So I try to fit in ideas with the zeitgeist.”

This year, fashion curators are pulling together a number of different zeitgeist threads. The Met, for instance, will be swapping the safety pins and Vivienne Westwood bondage gear from last year’s “Punk” exhibition for a retrospective devoted to Charles James, one of the first American couturiers who was, according to the late Cristobal Balenciaga, “the world’s best and only dressmaker who has raised it from an applied art to a pure art form.” Known as a difficult genius who made clients wait for their orders—or become so attached to his pieces that he’d refuse to hand them over at all—the designer was a blueprint for some of today’s best talents.

With the rise of Spring 2014’s art-inspired runway trend, what better time to learn about five game-changing fashion curators as well as a hint at some of the 2014 fashion exhibitions that may lead style conversations this year.