French fashion house Louis Vuitton has opened door to its second private museum La Galerie in the northern suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine near Paris.

Spread over an area of 6,500-square-foot, the two floored museum features floors, plinths and walls decorated with marquetry patterns. There are 400 objects and documents from the house’s archive of 26,000 objects and 165,000 documents. The collection of clothing includes designs from the fashion house’s past and present creative directors, like Kim Jones and Marc Jacobs. Scattered throughout are vintage pieces from Lanvin and Dior.

The ground floor features a selection of trunks and toiletry kits, alongside period product brochures, Vuitton correspondence and more modern designs. While the first floor has high arched poplar wood ceiling and includes Keepall bag from 1930 that belonged to Gaston-Louis Vuitton displayed next to a Bowling Vanity Tuffetage bag from creative director Nicolas Ghesquière’s fall 2014 show.

The fifth Momad Metrópolis, International Garment, Footwear and Accessory Showcase, organised by IFEMA, will see record participation from companies in the Textile-Garment sector at its next show, which will be held on September 11-13 at the Madrid Fair.

Three months before opening, the event continues to add new additions to its Textile-Garment sector, and is now close to reaching full occupancy in halls 2, 12, and 14 of the Madrid Fair.

This edition of Momad Metrópolis will showcase a broad range of women’s fashion, featuring companies whose styles include urban-contemporary, youth and casual, organised by sectors. With regard to Children’s Fashion, the showcase will have a selection of surprising and innovative items for children, and firms from the “Little” conference, specialising in childrenswear, will have a strong presence. In Men’s Fashion, the showcase will offer an interesting combination of casual and sportswear brands.  Meanwhile, Momad Showrooms will again showcase a carefully chosen selection of high-end brands.

However, for the first edition of February 2016, it is anticipated that Momad Metrópolis will held over two dates, meaning that on 5-7 February the Textile event will be held, and the corresponding Footwear Event will be held in March. The summer edition in September 2016, however, is expected to once again reunite Fashion and Footwear.

Max Mara, in partnership with Maramotti Collection, presents Uomini come Cibo – Humans as Food, an exhibition of forty works by the children of the Atelier dell’Errore, a visual arts laboratory created as a compendium for the clinical activities of the Reggio Emilia children’s neuropsychiatry department.

Upturning the perspective of the theme of Expo Milano 2015, the works focus on the central issue of a fantastic bestiary of creatures that feed off men.

With this visionary view of men, from dominant beings they become consumer objects, while the animals become devourers, incarnating the fears of the children who drew them, taking on a salvific function, becoming a projective defence mechanism for their fragility in their relations with the real world.

Visitors are taken on a journey that runs from underground tunnels, through the sea and the earth as far as the sky, in a stratification that re-establishes an apparent biological order among the different fantastic species. The thrilling imaginary journey provokes different personal projections for every visitor.

During the exhibition, a shopping bag created by Max Mara using the drawings of the Atelier is on sale at the Max Mara Group stores in Milan, and all proceeds will go to the Atelier.

A major shift of fashion, Donna Karan, the 66-year-old founder and chief designer of Donna Karan International, announced step down from her current role as Chief Designer of the LVMH-operated brand that bears her full name, rather than just her initials. 

Nonetheless, Ms. Karan will remain as an adviser to Donna Karan International, but devote more time to her Urban Zen line, which centers on wellness and artisanal goods, and its foundation.

The French conglomerate LVMH that bought the house in 2001, said there were no immediate plans to replace her as a designer, henceforth the main Donna Karan collection would be suspended, and will not hold a show at New York Fashion Week in September.

Inside the exhibition:

Celebrating the extraordinary creative talent of one of the most innovative designers of recent times, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is the first and largest retrospective of McQueen’s work, will open around the clock during its final weekend.

The news comes as the museum announced, it has received an “unprecedented demand” for tickets. And that’s quite the understatement given that 345,000 people have visited the exhibition since it opened on March 14. In its final days ,  V& A will be releasing more tickets for showings from Friday, 24th July to Sunday, 26th July at 10 pm., and from Friday, 31st July to Sunday, 2nd August at 11 pm, when the exhibition will close its doors for the last time.