Schiaparelli at the V&A
The V&A opened ‘Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art’ on March 28, blending couture and museum curation under curator Lydia Caston’s vision. (x.com) Coverage is framing it as a major cross‑discipline show that treats fashion pieces as fine‑art anchors — worth a museum trip if you follow fashion as art. (x.com)
The V&A’s Sainsbury Gallery show opened on 28 March 2026 and is scheduled to run until 8 November 2026. (vam.ac.uk) Curators on the project are Sonnet Stanfill, Lydia Caston and Rosalind McKever, with Caston credited as the V&A’s exhibition project curator who previously worked on Tim Walker: Wonderful Things. (vam.ac.uk blog) (vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com) The exhibition assembles more than 400 objects — listed by the museum as including around 100 ensembles and 50 artworks — and the V&A highlights the 1938 Skeleton dress (the only known surviving example) and the 1938 Tears dress among its centrepieces. (vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com) The show traces the house from the 1920s to the present and closes with contemporary couture by Daniel Roseberry, including looks worn on recent red carpets by Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa. (vam.ac.uk press release) (vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com) The exhibition’s architectural fit-out was produced by Nebbia as a full-build installation described by the designers as a ‘déjà vu’ spatial narrative made of monumental planes and layered thresholds. (divisare.com) Advance-booked tickets are listed on the V&A site at £28 on weekdays and £30 at weekends, with concessions and free entry for V&A members noted in the museum’s visitor information. (vam.ac.uk)
