What to See

‘Reign of Fashion’

The artist Bradley Theodore is hosting a live painting show on Thursday at Clarendon Fine Art in Mayfair, where he will be painting an Hermès Birkin bag in his colorful style, followed by an exhibition running until Sept. 29 inspired by Marie Antoinette, who is also the subject of a major exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum.

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‘Dirty Looks’

Fashion likes it dirty. Or at least according to the Barbican’s new exhibition “Dirty Looks,” it does. Exploring high fashion’s relationship with filth, designers under the spotlight include Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood , Miguel Adrover, Helmut Lang, and Dilara Findikoglu. From Maison Margiela’s spring 2005 button-down shirt covered in lipstick kisse

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