## fashion enters the realm of art at the V&A Positioning fashion as a site of artistic production rather than adornment, **Victoria and Albert Museum** (V&A)’s Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art exhibition reframes Elsa Schiaparelli as a key figure who dissolved the boundary between couture and avant-garde practice, bringing her surrealist collaborations into direct dialogue with contemporary fashion under Daniel Roseberry’s creative direction. On view until March 28th, 2026, the first exhibition in the UK devoted entirely to the house of Elsa Schiaparelli, staged at the Sainsbury Gallery, spans nearly a century of radical design, tracing the couturier’s trajectory from her experimental beginnings in 1920s Paris to the contemporary revival of the maison. Bringing together more than 400 objects, including garments, artworks, accessories, and archival material, the exhibition positions Schiaparelli as a central figure operating between fashion, art, and performance.…