Lake Como Design Festival 2026 brings nine days of design exhibitions, installations and studio visits to Como from September 12 to 20. The program spans Villa del Grumello, Villa Saporiti, design archives and private studios, with collectible design, textile art and yacht design among this year’s highlights.
Paris Fashion Exhibitions Fall 2026 line up unusually well with Paris Fashion Week, running September 28 through October 6. Irving Penn opens at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie on September 30, while the Musée des Arts Décoratifs marks 40 years of fashion the same day. On October 2, Rafael Pavarotti follows with more than 200 photographs spanning fashion, portraiture and names including Rihanna and Beyoncé. Meanwhile, Palais Galliera looks at women who crossed the gender codes of 19th-century dress, while Fondation Azzedine Alaïa traces Azzedine Alaïa's relationship with Africa. Six Exhibitions, one very busy Fashion Week calendar.
Paris Design Week returns September 10–19 with a citywide program extending well beyond Maison&Objet. Monumental installations take over the Grand Palais, Arc de Triomphe, Hôtel de la Marine and Hôtel de Sully. RH Estates makes its French debut, and new galleries join the Paris design scene. Inside, discover the exhibitions, installations and new openings to see during Paris Design Week 2026.
Venice Art Exhibitions & Museums remain on view throughout the 2026 Film Festival, as Biennale Arte and the city’s wider art season continue into autumn. For those visiting Venice for the Mostra this September, discover the Exhibitions and collections to see beyond the Festival.
European art trips head outdoors this fall, with three exhibitions turning mountains, historic parks and northern forests into places worth traveling for. Biennale Gherdëina runs across Val Gardena in the Italian Dolomites through September 13, while Sonsbeek 2026 fills Arnhem's Park Sonsbeek and city streets through October 11. Further north, Climate Clock leaves a permanent trail of contemporary art across Oulu, Finland, from forests and Stone Age landscapes to a fishing harbor where SUPERFLEX will spend ten years reading The Odyssey one word at a time. Three different trips, and three good reasons to leave the museum behind this fall.
The Côte d'Azur has been an artists' territory for 150 years, and every summer its museums, foundations and villas program their strongest work for the season. Knowing which ones deserve an afternoon away from the water is another matter. Our French Riviera Art Guide Summer 2026 does that work: the exhibitions to see between Monaco and Saint-Tropez, the private foundations that receive by appointment, the evenings worth booking ahead, and the addresses locals keep quiet.
The Museo del Gioiello in Vicenza dedicates its summer Exhibition to Corbella, the Milanese firm that dressed the stages of La Scala, La Fenice and the Colón in Buenos Aires for nearly 150 years. Tiaras, crowns and stage jewels worn by Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and the greatest opera voices of the 20th century. Including the polychrome necklace Callas wore on stage and the crown from the world première of Turandot at La Scala in 1926. On view until September 30, 2026.
Art Basel Basel 2026 runs June 16 to 21 at Messe Basel, and this year for the first time, Basel Exclusive reserves major works from all online previews, revealing them publicly only at the VIP opening on June 16 . Nairy Baghramian and Ibrahim Mahama unveil two landmark public commissions across the city as inaugural Art Basel Awards Gold Awardees. Ruba Katrib of MoMA PS1 takes the helm of the Unlimited sector for the first time, bringing 59 monumental projects into a 16,000 m² hall. Beyond Messe Basel, the city fills with museum exhibitions, gallery openings, fashion shows, and invitation-only events. Pierre Huyghe takes over the Fondation Beyeler. Thomas Bangalter, Julian Charrière, and Hans Ulrich Obrist converge on Riehen for two unmissable evenings. Subscribe to Babble-up to access the full guide, including our curated calendar and concierge service.
Gucci Storia reclaims Palazzo Gucci at Palazzo della Mercanzia, the 1337 landmark on Piazza della Signoria in Florence. Demna's first exhibition as Creative Director transforms 105 years of Gucci heritage into nine rooms across two floors of Palazzo della Mercanzia.The Exhibition unfolds as a museum of museums: portrait halls, an archive where chronology dissolves, a manufacture room where Florentine savoir-faire shares space with robotic arms, and a darkened gallery of suspended ready-to-wear spanning decades.
30 years after his murder in Miami, Paris gives Gianni Versace the retrospective his work has always demanded. This summer, Musée Maillol hosts the Gianni Versace Retrospective, running June 5 to September 6, 2026, with 450 creations across eight thematic rooms. From the Barocco immersive room to the Bondage collection, the Supermodels chapter and photographs signed by Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Irving Penn. Scenography by Nathalie Crinière. The first major French retrospective since 1986, at 59 rue de Grenelle, Paris 7e.
Venice Biennale Arte 2026 guide to In Minor Keys: the final vision of Koyo Kouoh, 111 artists, 99 national pavilions, the must-visit pavilions at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and VIP access to the preview days and beyond.
This Venice Biennale Arte , Fondazione Prada presents Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, the first exhibition to place these two American artists in direct conversation. Curated by Nancy Spector, former Artistic Director of the Guggenheim Museum, the show unfolds at Ca' Corner della Regina on the Grand Canal. Born a decade apart, Jafa and Prince are both image scavengers, appropriating from movies, social media and popular culture to produce an unflinching exposé on America. Over fifty works, new commissions and a collaboratively conceived zine. Free admission. May 9 to November 23, 2026.
The complete insider guide to Milan Design Week 2026: must-see events, VIP preview days, luxury activations, and exclusive party info at Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone.
Elsa Schiaparelli once said that in difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. She proved it with a skeleton dress, a lobster telephone, and a shoe worn as a hat. Nearly a century later, the clothes still stop you cold. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art is the UK's first major retrospective dedicated to her, and it lands at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with four hundred objects spanning the 1920s to today. Archival couture sits next to Man Ray portraits, Dalí collaborations, Picasso on the walls, and Daniel Roseberry's current haute couture a few feet away from pieces made ninety years earlier.
"The Only True Protest Is Beauty" retrospective lands at Fondazione Dries Van Noten Venice: with 200 works across fashion, art, ceramics and design inside Palazzo Pisani Moretta, one of the most extraordinary private palaces on the Grand Canal. Curated by Designer Dries Van Noten with Curator Geert Bruloot, the presentation gathers over 200 works across fashion, jewelry, art, ceramics and material experimentation into 20 rooms that unfold across three floors of the Palazzo.
Exposure – The Power of Being Seen, from Harry Styles to Lady Gaga Exhibition at ITS Arcademy Trieste, Italy brings together iconic looks worn by Beyoncé, Madonna and more.
Depero Space to Space — The Creation of Memory on view at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan through August 2. One of the most unexpected exhibitions the city has produced this spring. Fortunato Depero, the Futurist painter and designer behind the iconic Campari bottle, the ViBiBar in Bolzano, and some of the most electrically alive textile and scenographic work of the 20th century, installed inside a late 19th-century neo-Renaissance palazzo on Via Gesù. The Museo Bagatti Valsecchi was built by two brothers who wanted to live inside a Renaissance dream. Depero did the same thing in Rovereto with his Casa d'Arte Futurista. Depero Space to Space puts both visions in the same rooms and lets them argue it out across a century.
Galeries Bartoux Venice has transformed a former cinema in the heart of Dorsoduro into Accademia Cinemersiva, a 12-meter high immersive space where the Serenissimersivo Dalí Venice Immersive Exhibition brings Salvador Dalí's sculptures to life for the first time through seven dreamlike sequences. In a city that has always existed somewhere between the real and the impossible, Dalí's surrealist universe finds its most natural home.
During Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, The Peninsula Hong Kong presents Art in Resonance, commissioning three new works with the V&A as curatorial partner, as Artist Angel Hui heads to the 61st Venice Biennale this spring.
Cognacq-Jay inaugurates Revealing the Feminine: Fashion and Appearance in the 18th Century in Paris this March, tracing the visual language of femininity from Painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in 1780 to Photographer Steven Meisel in 2026.
Historian Olivier Saillard brings fashion history to life at Fondation Cartier in Paris with Le Musée Vivant de la Mode, a 15-day programme of daily performances, installations and special guests Tilda Swinton and Paloma Picasso running until March 21, 2026.
Frieze LA 2026 runs February 26 to March 1 at Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles. The seventh edition brings together 100 galleries from 24 countries, including Gagosian, Pace Gallery, Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner. Highlights include solo presentations by Amoako Boafo at Roberts Projects, Sayre Gomez at David Kordansky, and a three-night Club Silencio residency at Sunset at Edition in West Hollywood. Felix LA runs concurrently at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, February 25 to March 1.
From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce & Gabbana runs February 6 through June 14, 2026 at ICA Miami. Curated by Florence Müller with scenography by Agence Galuchat, the Exhibition features over 300 archival and couture pieces including new galleries inspired by the brand's 2025 Alta Moda and Alta Sartoria shows in Rome. Digital works by Quayola, Obvious, and Felice Limosani are also on view.
18th-Century Fashion: A Fantasized Heritage Exhibition runs March 14 through July 12, 2026 at Palais Galliera, Paris. Featuring over seventy silhouettes from the 18th century to the present, including Marie-Antoinette’s corset and pieces by Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Christian Lacroix, Vivienne Westwood, and Dries van Noten. The Exhibition traces how Enlightenment-era dress has been continuously reinvented through nostalgia, camp, and queer visual culture.
Nomad presents the Giorgio Armani / Unveiled Exhibition at Villa Beaulieu in St. Moritz from February 12 to 15, 2026. This ninth flagship edition features Through the Looking Glass: Jane Crisp and Yuta Segawa, curated by Abby Bangser, exploring contemporary craft and the Armani/Casa interiors universe
The Luxury Icons Exhibition - MonteNapoleone opens February 8-22, 2026 on Via MonteNapoleone, Milan during Milano Cortina 2026. Chinese photographer Chen Man exhibits portraits of Rihanna, Michelle Yeoh, Jackie Chan, and Benedict Cumberbatch in Memory Bricks. The project celebrates ten years of twinning between Milan's MonteNapoleone District and Shanghai's Jing'an District.
Buckingham Palace Honors the Queen’s Centennial With a Major Fashion Retrospective August 18, 2025- Queen Elizabeth II Exhibition, Buckingham Palace, London For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II reigned as Britain’s longest-serving monarch and a defining style icon. Her wardrobe shaped diplomacy, set traditions, and inspired designers worldwide. From her 1947 wedding dress by Sir Norman Hartnell to pastel coats and…
Gulbenkian Foundation’s 70th-Anniversary Exhibition Unites Museum Masterpieces with Haute Couture Icons This April, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon Presents "Art and Fashion in the Gulbenkian Collection." The Major Exhibition Juxtaposes 100 Historic Artworks With 140 Contemporary Fashion Pieces to Explore the Enduring Conversation Between Aesthetics Across Time
To Mark a Historic Centenary, Paris to Host "Calder: Dreaming in Balance" Exhibition Spanning the Full Artistic Legacy January 9, 2026 | "Calder: Dreaming in Balance" Exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton This Spring, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris will dedicate all its exhibition spaces to a major retrospective of Alexander Calder, celebrating the centenary of his arrival in France.…
Ce Qui Se Trame / What’s Woven Explores Artistic Exchanges & Traditional Techniques in Textile Arts December 11, 2025- Ce Qui Se Trame / What’s Woven Textile Exhibition at Mobilier National Paris Mobilier National Unveils Ce qui se trame / What’s Woven: A Landmark Exhibition Exploring India–France Creative Dialogue Through Contemporary Textile Craft. Showcasing Masterpieces From Le19M — Chanel’s Métiers…
From Paris to Osaka: Boucheron's Global Campaign to Cement Art Deco as a Permanent Luxury Value November 20, 2025- Boucheron Art Deco Exhibitions in Paris and Osaka In 2025, Boucheron takes its place at the very center of the global Art Deco centenary. The Maison appears as a central protagonist in two landmark international exhibitions that define the movement's past,…
Inside the World's Most Significant Museum Shows on View This Winter November 5, 2025- Must-See Fashion and Art Exhibitions 2026 in Europe and Beyond As winter descends, the art world opens its doors to unmissable exhibitions across Paris, Europe, and beyond. Meanwhile, these shows explore art history from 18th-century royalty to contemporary Afrofuturism. They invite you to step inside the…
At the Museo Del Tessuto, Two Couturiers Separated by Time Meet in a Conversation of Souls. November 6, 2025- Alaïa and Balenciaga "Sculptors of Shape" Fashion Exhibition, Prato, Italy. There are moments in fashion when silence speaks louder than spectacle. When two hands, decades apart, trace the same curve, cut the same line, and give birth to the same idea…
See Your Objects Become Art in Song Dong's New Exhibition at Le Bon Marché from January 10 November 5, 2025- Le Bon Marché X Song Dong "Miscellaneous Objects" Exhibition Next January, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche transforms into a profound artistic playground. For its 11th major installation, the store invites renowned Chinese artist Song Dong to take over its space.…
Threads of Impact: A Collective Manifesto of Arab Creativity November 3, 2025- Threads of Impact Fashion Exhibition by Fashion Trust Arabia, Doha Under the vast light of Doha, within the minimalist walls of M7, a powerful conversation unfolded last week, one stitched in silk, sequins, and memory. Threads of Impact, presented by Fashion Trust Arabia (FTA) in collaboration with M7,…
The Photographer’s First Solo Show in a Cinematic Journey Through Three Decades of Fashion Imagery September 29, 2025- Glen Luchford ‘Atlas’ Show at 10 Corso Como, Milan Milan’s Fashion Week began not with a landmark exhibition. 10 Corso Como just unveiled Glen Luchford. Atlas. This is the British photographer’s first-ever solo show, presenting his revolutionary vision. Luchford has turned editorials,…
La Galerie Dior and the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa Unite to Showcase Over a Century of Couture September 28, 2025 – Dior by Alaïa at La Galerie Dior & “Alaïa & Dior: A Dialogue” at Fondation Azzedine Alaïa Exhibitions In the hushed, hallowed halls of fashion history, where the legacies of titans are often kept in separate, sacred chapels, a conversation…
Step Inside Milan’s Must-See Exhibition Celebrating Man Ray’s Century of Light September 27, 2025- "MAN RAY Forme di Luce" at Palazzo Reale, Milan The scene is set. Milan’s autumn season ignites with a major cultural event. The Palazzo Reale presents Man Ray: Forme di luce (“Forms of Light”), an extensive retrospective celebrating one of the true pioneers of the 20th…
A New Exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française Pulls Back the Curtain on the Legendary Director September 27, 2025- My Name Is Orson Exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française He was a prodigy who became a legend. A Hollywood king who became an independent exile. Orson Welles defies a simple definition. This autumn, Paris embraces this magnificent complexity. My Name is Orson Welles,…
Paris’s Grand Magasins Turn Into Living Magazines With Grazia and ELLE This September September 23, 2025- Grazia and ELLE Exhibitions at Paris' Department Stores This September, as the fashion world descends upon Paris, the city’s grand magasins are scripting a new narrative. One where editorial vision leaps off the page and into physical spaces. In a powerful synergy of print…
The Off-Site Exhibitions Redefining Contemporary Design September 5, 2025- Paris Design Week 2025 Key Events This September, as the city shakes off the summer haze, Paris reaffirms its status as the global nucleus of design. From September 4-13, the 2025 edition of Paris Design Week, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary under the theme "Régénération" (Regeneration), transforms the capital into a sprawling open-air…
Grand Palais Paris Hosts the First European Showcase of Abloh’s Vision August 26, 2025- Virgil Abloh Archive x Nike “The Codes” Exhibition Even years after his passing, Virgil Abloh’s influence still shapes how we dress, create, and think about culture. His legacy stretches beyond Off-White, Nike, and Louis Vuitton. It’s a language of collaboration, remix, and disruption that continues to…
Armani Inaugurates His First Museum Exhibition and Stages a Runway at Palazzo Brera to Mark the Anniversary August 26, 2025 – Armani 50 Years Celebration- Brera Exhibition This September, Giorgio Armani marks the 50th anniversary of his maison with a series of landmark events woven into the Milan Fashion Week calendar. The tribute balances archival reflection, cultural recognition, and the…
Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu Opens September 18 at Fondazione Prada, Ahead of Milan Fashion Week August 26, 2025- Alejandro González Iñárritu Fondazione Prada September in Milan is a season of shows, fittings, and the rituals of fashion week. But in the middle of the city’s style agenda, Fondazione Prada is staging an exhibition that will…
"Visionary Journeys" Exhibition: The Maison Reimagines Its Legacy Through Twelve Chapters August 18, 2025- Louis Vuitton Exhibition in Osaka: "Visionary Journeys" This summer in Osaka, Louis Vuitton unveiled a history lesson through motion, light, and the cultural bridge it has built with Japan over the decades. At the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, the exhibition titled "Visionary Journeys" runs until September…
The Austrian Crystal Maison Celebrates 130 Years with a Glittering Los Angeles Showcase August 18, 2025- Swarovski “Masters of Light” Exhibition in Hollywood For 130 years, Maison Swarovski has captured the magic of light and transformed it into moments of pure spectacle. From Marilyn Monroe’s sparkle to Elton John’s stage costumes, Hollywood has long been a canvas for its crystals.…
Unveiled Last May, "Telemachus – The Quest for Self" Continues at Palazzo Bonvicini Through November July 14, 2025- Fondation Valmont Telemachus – The Quest for Self at Palazzo Bonvicini, Venice Revealed in May and still running through the fall, Telemachus – The Quest for Self deserves a spot on your Venice itinerary this summer. Presented by the Fondation Valmont inside…
Orient Express Reveals Its Future Amid a Historic Tribute to Art Deco Mastery July 14, 2025- Orient Express X Musée des Arts Décoratif Exhibition: 1925-2025. Cent ans d’Art déco, 1925 – 2025. One Hundred Years of Art Deco The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris opens its doors this autumn to a century-spanning journey through design. From October 21, 2025,…
Arles Welcomes Couture Shows, Museum Openings & Exhibitions For A New Kind Of Fashion Summer July 9, 2025- Arles Fashion Summer: Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025 Arles once moved at the rhythm of stonecutters and shepherds. The city stood quietly between the Rhône River and the salt plains of the Camargue. It carried the weight of its Roman amphitheater, its churches,…
Bulgari’s Goldsmithing Heritage in Dialogue with Etruscan Art at the National Etruscan Museum June 28, 2025- Bulgari x Castellani Exhibition at the Etruscan Museum in Rome In the heart of Rome, Bulgari is illuminating history with its latest collaboration at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. Running from June 24 to August 31, 2025, the maison unveiled an exhibition…