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...
Nov 19, 2018
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...
May 10, 2018
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...
May 9, 2018
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...
Jan 29, 2018
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...
Apr 30, 2014
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...
Apr 12, 2013
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...
May 1, 2012
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...
Apr 27, 2012
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...
Jan 12, 2012
