Museum directors mixed with fashionistas last night

From a Modernist community on California's northern coast, to the kimono's continuing influence on international fashion

Exhibition delves into Western pop culture’s great moments of binary disruption

The villa was the fashion designer's home in the last decades of his life

From Nari Ward's breathtaking installations to a sweep of contemporary Nordic art

The fashion designer, who died this week at the age of 85, spent lavishly on decorating his houses in the style of the Ancien Régime

Stains on the lavishly decorated gown—made for royal's 21st birthday—show that it had gone to some good parties

Mystical rituals lie at the heart of the fashion designer’s first major exhibition taking place at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Book of illuminations show various fashions that shed light on literary styles

The esteemed 19th-century author was also a renowned dandy whose passion for fashion increased with his fame and fortune

Fresh takes on Modernism, colour and two giants of American art

After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer

As debates on the burqa rage worldwide, De Young Museum exhibition explores complexities and range of Islamic dress

Mika Rottenberg’s surreal world lands in London’s newest space, Goldsmiths CCA, while the “king of cling” Azzedine Alaïa captivates at the Design Museum

Decision follows a controversial closure in February for Erdem’s runway show

The garment was conserved for the Holburne Museum's exhibition of objects collected by the “intrepid” traveller Ellen Tanner

The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author, on what Catholics can take away from the Met’s Heavenly Bodies exhibition

Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers

The museum's annual gala show examines how the Catholic Church’s aesthetics have influenced designers

From cabinets of curiosities at the Whitechapel to confronting trauma at the Barbican

Peter the Great’s tailored justaucorps, Catherine the Great's gown and more on display in St Petersburg

Houses beef up digital teams by hiring from the fashion industry in a bid for new revenue streams

Museum's Marrakech counterpart is due to open later this month