Meadows Museum and Museo del Traje Will Collaborate On Fashion Exhibition
Image: courtesy of Meadow Museum by Kevin Todora; Museo del Traje, Madrid by Munio Rodil Ares
The Meadows Museum in Dallas has announced a major exhibition. The exhibition will combine paintings of Spanish fashion, pairing it from its historic dress and accessories collection from the Museo del Traje in Madrid. The exhibition which plans to open up on September 19th,2022, will present how fashion trends in Spain have changed over five hundred years.
The pairings will include Ignacio Zuloaga’s The Bullfighter ‘El Segovianito’ (1912) accompanied by a traje de luces of the same colour, Zuloaga’s Portrait of the Duchess of Arión, Marchioness of Bay (1918) displayed alongside a mantón de Manila.
Image: courtesy of Meadow Museum by Michael Bodycomb; Museo del Traje, Madrid by Gonzalo Cases Ortega
Jasper Conran buys Yves Saint Laurent's Villa Mabrouka in Tangier
Yves Saint Laurent’s home in the last decades of his life
Villa Mabrouka, Tangier © Sotheby's
The British fashion and interiors designer Jasper Conran is set to purchase Villa Mabrouka in Tangier from the Fondation Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, Morocco for an undisclosed price. The foundation which was founded by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.
Villa Mabrouka, Tangier © Sotheby's
Bergé's instructions prior to his death in September 2017 were that all proceeds from the property's sale will go towards the not-for-profit Fondation Jardin Marjorelle. The sale's announcement was made by Bergé's heir, AD100 landscape designer Madison Cox, who wed Bergé shortly before his death and is president of Fondation Jardin Majorelle and the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.
