Milan’s new Museo Delle Culture museum has come up with a new retrospective tracing the history of the popular doll, Barbie.

Titled ‘Barbie: The Icon’, the exhibition is curated by Massimiliano Capella and is opened for both adults and children till 13^th March, 2016. The exposition tells the story of the iconic doll Barbara Millicent Robert, known as Barbie, designed by the wife of Mattel’s founder, in 1959.

The exhibition is divided into five sections and starts with an introductory room named “Who is Barbie?” which features seven signature Barbie dolls, one for each decade. The first section, Barbie is Fashion, showcases some of the close ties between Barbie and the fashion industry while the second section, Barbie Family, will highlight Barbie’s friends and family like Ken, Skipper and her pets.

The third part, Barbie Careers, shows the multitude of professional careers of the doll while the fourth area, Dolls of the World, features over 50 nationalities and cultures encompassed by Barbie. The final showcase, Queen, Diva and Celebrity: Barbie as a Global Icon displays a number of dolls dressed as history’s most fashionable heroines.

Swarovski will be launching its first-ever, Light Up Your Life, installation in Mumbai, to be unveiled by Nathalie Colin, Creative Director and Executive Vice President, along with Francis Belin, Senior VP, Swarovski Consumer Goods Business Asia-Pacific and Sukanya Dutta Roy, MD, Swarovski Consumer Goods Business India.

Inspired by lanterns, this alluring installation has been conceptualised by leading artist-designer and scenographer, Sumant Jayakrishnan. It will be on display for a month, exemplifying the fusion of Indian heritage with modernity and will showcase the playfulness between light and darkness, which are key aspects of this concept.

“What you light is what you see! And it seemed very apt to represent the abstraction of a lantern as a ray of hope (a cental crystal and glass sculpture) physically floating above the floor standing yet tiered 3D abstraction of the quintessential thousand petalled Indian Lotus Mandala. The lower tip of the Lantern installation and upper tip of the lotus floor standing installation are perfectly aligned with a small gap in between to create the dynamic of the future unknown,”says Sumant.                                                                            

Iconic brand Chanel has announced the launch of Through Her lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, a multi-faceted, three-day program designed to support emerging U.S.-based female filmmakers.

The program running from Oct 26 to Oct 28 is presented by Tribeca Enterprises and Chanel in collaboration with Pulse Films and will empower seven rising filmmakers with project support, master classes, one-on-one mentorship, and peer-to-peer sessions. The list includes Numa Perrier, Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman, Vera Miao, Anna Martemucci, Christina Voros and Kat Coiro.

The three days will end with a pitch presentation before a jury where one filmmaker will be awarded $75,000 to make her film with the support of Pulse Films and Tribeca Digital Studios to produce the project. The jury for the inaugural year includes jurors Patricia Clarkson, Mary Harron, Mynette Louie, Rebecca Miller and Julianne Moore.