{"id":255472,"date":"2025-07-11T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:21:12","slug":"the-va-to-host-schiaparelli-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255472\/","title":{"rendered":"The V&A to Host Schiaparelli Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next spring, the V&A<\/a> South Kensington will unveil a new fashion exhibition, exploring Elsa Schiaparelli\u2019s legacy<\/a> through a Surrealist lens that challenged conventions and redefined the boundaries of fashion. Opening in March 2026 in the museum\u2019s Sainsbury Gallery, \u2018Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art\u2019<\/a> is the first UK exhibition devoted to the trailblazing couturi\u00e8re. The announcement comes in the wake of the maison\u2019s artistic director Daniel Roseberry\u2019s latest haute couture show<\/a> in Paris, which will also feature in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

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A couture sheath gown from Daniel Roseberry\u2019s A\/W 2021 Schiaparelli collection<\/p>\n

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Bella Hadid wearing the design on the red carpet in Cannes<\/p>\n

The installation will invite visitors to reimagine the everyday, as objects are transformed into artifacts of wit, fantasy, and theatrical flair. More than 200 archive exhibits, ranging from couture and jewelry to sculpture and scent, will be on display, showcasing the house\u2019s radical beginnings and its contemporary reinvention under Roseberry. The iconic Skeleton dress and Tears gown, created in collaboration with Salvador Dal\u00ed, are set to be exhibited alongside works by Picasso, Cocteau and Man Ray. The retrospective will explore Schaparelli\u2019s artistic partnerships, while spotlighting the lesser-known history of the brand\u2019s London branch.<\/p>\n

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Models photographed in Schiaparelli designs<\/p>\n

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The maison\u2019s legacy looms large in the canon of 20th-century design. Renowned for her eccentric garments and witty, unconventional style, Elsa Schiaparelli saw fashion as a medium for both self-expression and cultural commentary. A mistress of transformation, she fused satire, sensuality, and surprise in her avant-garde silhouettes, noting that \u201cin difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”
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The curation will bridge multiple eras, tracing Schiaparelli\u2019s lineage through to Roseberry\u2019s fantastical couture creations, worn by powerhouse women including Beyonc\u00e9, Zendaya and Dua Lipa. At 21 Place Vend\u00f4me, the designer\u2019s spirit lives on in gilded corsets, celestial bodices, and sculpted leather roses.<\/p>\n

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Silk jersey coat by Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean Cocteau and Lesage (1937)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exhibition celebrates her enduring influence through iconic collaborations with 20th-century masters and a pioneering fusion of creativity and commerce,\u201d says Schiaparelli\u2019s CEO Delphine Bellini. The V&A director Tristram Hunt echoes the sentiment, describing the maison as \u201can ideal subject for a spectacular exhibition at the V&A\u201d and the scale of the loans as \u201cunprecedented.”
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\"ensemble\"Davis, Richard<\/p>\n

The Tears evening dress and head veil, designed by Elsa Schiaparelli for Circus Collection in 1938, using fabric created by Salvador Dali<\/p>\n

The show follows in the footsteps of blockbuster fashion exhibitions at the museum from \u2018Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams\u2019<\/a> to \u2018Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto<\/a>.’ With \u2018Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art,’ the V&A continues its role as a guardian of fashion history, offering a display of couture and an immersive exploration of a house\u2019s legacy. <\/p>\n

\u2018Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art\u2019 runs from 21 March to 1 November 2026 at the V&A South Kensington. Tickets will be available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next spring, the V&A South Kensington will unveil a new fashion exhibition, exploring Elsa Schiaparelli\u2019s legacy through a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,1380,98188,4022,1331,77,1381,98187,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-content-type-news","11":"tag-contentid-9bceb6ae-ff17-48f7-adf3-48698184f2ba","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-locale-us","16":"tag-shorttitle-the-va-to-host-schiaparelli-exhibition","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114833161436659123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}