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Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.
Richard Nott paintings join St Michael's Church for Artists' Open Houses in Brighton
Having originally worked for the famous Valentino fashion house in Rome, artist Richard Nott's show in one of Britain's finest churches is a survey of exotic dresses.
Galvanize Festival of Contemporary Metal shows off talent and innovation of Sheffield
Taking over some of Sheffield's most inspiring venues during May, the steel city's programme of displays, activities and workshops is a metal festival with a difference.
Kaffe Fassett Comes to Wales via Lampeter's Welsh Quilt Centre
Kaffe Fassett's array of bold rainbow patterned quilts represent the internationally-renowned textile artist's first exhibition in Wales.
Curator's Choice: Karen Snowden on a stylish maternity dress in Scarborough
The Head of Collections at Scarborough Museums Trust tells us why a "wonderful, beautiful" dress from 1790 still looks comfy today.
Designer Roland Mouret turns curator for Norman Parkinson's Mouvements de Femmes
The designer for stars including Victoria Beckham says he is "very excited" to be curating an archive of photos from the 20th century photographer at a former Georgian chapel in Bath.
Wowie Bowie: The V&A does blockbuster with David Bowie is...
The V&A's David Bowie is...spine tingling stuff says Richard Moss, as he takes a trip back to the seventies and the days of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Sudley House marks 100 years of social change and fashion in Twentieth century Chic
Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Christian Dior, Yves St Laurent and more star in a show of style and social change at Liverpool's Sudley House.
Lynn Chadwick: Evolution in Sculpture at Abbot Hall and Blackwell in Cumbria
A gallery and outdoor exhibition of Lynn Chadwick's works in Cumbria - the first retrospective of the influential sculptor since his death in 2004 - features ominous hybrid beasts among more than 50......
Redesigning Fashion - How to Change the World in Style at Stockport's Hat Works
The Hat Works Museum harks back to the make-do-and-mend days of the 1940s for a stylish look at resourceful fashion, featuring designs by acclaimed milliners and stylists.
Inspired by Nature: The Traditional Cosmetics of Korea at the Korean Cultural Centre
Cosmetics and beauty from thousands of years ago to the present in a display at the London centre which also gives visitors the chance to make their own treatments.
Fashion designer Peter Jensen to launch Hepworth-inspired collection in Wakefield
Designs full of holes will feature heavily when high art and fashion meet in catwalk style with a womanswear launch at The Hepworth Wakefield.
Curator's Choice: Lucy Cooper on a wedding dress made out of metal in Sheffield
The Museums Sheffield Curator of Metalwork tells us about a mesh dress made for the current Designed to Shine: 100 Years of Stainless Steel show at the Millennium Gallery.
Giant Katy Perry and Kimberley Walsh prop joins Shoe Heaven at Southend Central Museum
There are shoes from the 14th to the 21st century in a well-heeled show in Southend. But a giant sole used on stage by Katy Perry and Girls Aloud catches the eye.
Curator's Choice: Rosemary Harden on Fifty Fabulous Frocks at Bath's Fashion Museum
A 200-year-old showstopper and an Ossie Clark dress known from a David Hockney painting as we take a look at the sartorial greatest hits from a glitzy new exhibition.
