LONDON — The first U.K. exhibition dedicated to the French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel at the Victoria & Albert museum is getting an extension.
“Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto” will now run until March 10 instead of Feb. 25 after selling out within three days of opening.
Tickets for the extended viewing go on sale from Wednesday.
“The V&A has a long history of staging many of the world’s most successful fashion exhibitions — and since opening, ‘Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto’ has placed itself firmly within that canon,” said Daniel Slater, director of exhibitions at the V&A.
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The exhibition charts six decades of Chanel’s career, from the opening of her first millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 to her final show in 1971.
The showcase is divided into 10 sections, starting with “Towards a New Elegance,” which traces Chanel’s beginning in millinery and quick expansion into clothing.
Based upon an exhibition of the same name organized by the Palais Galliera in Paris in 2020, the exhibition has been reimagined for the V&A. It features rarely seen pieces from the London museum’s collection alongside looks from Palais Galliera and the Patrimoine de Chanel, the heritage collections of the fashion house in Paris.
The exhibition will travel to Shanghai this summer as it continues its international tour. It is billed as the first retrospective devoted to the work of the legendary designer in China.
Shanghai will be the fourth stop in the exhibition’s global tour, after its first international debut at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 2021. It then traveled to the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo in 2022 before moving to the V&A.
