November News Roundup
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The latest blockbuster exhibition at London’s V&A showcases the golden age of Mughal art with The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture, and Opulence, a show three years in the making. The exhibit, which spans a 70-year-period includes illustrated manuscripts, textiles and fine objects like daggers and inlaid wooden cabinets all produced by highly skilled Hindu and Muslim artists and craftsmen. Learn more about the exhibition, the Mughal emperors whose reigns are part of this period, and the cosmopolitan court they ruled over here.
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Meanwhile, over at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Fashion and Film, Imane Ayissi is receiving a retrospective of his work with Imane Ayissi: From Africa to the World. A former model and dancer turned haute couturier, Ayissi is a native of Cameroon and creates garments that fuse traditional elements and craftsmanship from across the African continent with French haute couture savoir faire. The designer, whose work challenges the Western-oriented world of high fashion, has been a guest designer of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode since 2020 when he became the first sub-Saharan designer to show at the semi-annual shows .
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The Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action was established at the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) in Katowice, Poland in 2018. The central aim of the charter is for the fashion industry to achieve net-zero Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by no later than 2050. However, the European Union has set a deadline of 2030 for the European fashion industry to reduce carbon emissions by 55% compared to 1990; yet at the current rate the industry is reducing carbon emissions, it will not reach its targets until 2038. Learn what kinds of tradeoffs the industry will have to make and the associated costs it will have to absorb to reach their emissions goal – something the US fashion industry should be paying close attention to.
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The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) wasted no time trying to calm a nervous US fashion industry post-election. With the looming threat of tariffs on China, Europe and Canada, many brands are trying to anticipate what kind of impact these will have on their supply chains, labor costs, and logistics. The CFDA breaks it all down in this article and promises to keep the industry up to date with the latest developments as the new administration takes office.
Model Chanel Iman on the runway during the Christian Dior Fall 2009 Haute Couture show wearing a hat by Stephen Jones, photo courtesy of Pascal Le Segretain.
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British milliner Stephen Jones has collaborated with many designers throughout his 45-year career, especially those in the haute couture world. Which is one reason why Miren Arzalluz, director of Paris’ Palais Galliera, decided to explore Jones’ work and its ties to the City of Light, French culture and Parisian couture in a new exhibition, ‘Stephen Jones, Chapeaux d’Artiste’. Read up on why Jones adores Paris, how he got his start designing hats, and the long list of designers he has collaborated with and are also featured in the show.
