London’s art and fashion worlds came together today at a press preview for Tate Britain’s autumn blockbuster The 90s: Art and Fashion (8 October 2026 -14 February 2027). The highly anticipated show promises to explore “this period’s surge of creative energy” under the expert eye of former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful, a leading light of the seismic decade in question. Enninful introduced the exhibition in the sumptuous setting of The Groucho Club—a famed 90s Soho haunt—telling the assembled crowd that it was the first time he’d seen the fabled hotspot in the daytime.
“What defined that period was an energy and a refusal of hierarchy,” he told the press, pointing out that this is “not just a reflection of the YBA (Young British Artists) moment” which is “part of the story, not the whole story”. Dominique Heyse-Moore, one of the exhibition curators, presented key works and artists in the show, from Damien Hirst to Corinne Day, Helen Chadwick and Jenny Saville. Girl power rules (even at a Tate briefing) with Enninful quipping that the all-women curatorial team are Tate’s equivalent of the Spice Girls.
