Romy Schneider was one of the most important German actresses, whose image is deeply ingrained in the collective memory. Having shot to fame as Sissi in the eponymous romantic biopic about Elisabeth, Empress Consort of Austria, she established herself as a star of French cinema in the 1970s.
Opening on March 24, 2012, the de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park presents, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first exhibition devoted to the celebrated French designer and his personal themes of "equality, diversity and perversity."
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents Projects 97: Mark Boulos, the New York premiere of the artist’s video installation All That Is Solid Melts into Air (2008), on view through July 16, 2012.
The Museum of Costume. CIPE (Madrid, Spain) hosts the exhibition Haute Couture on paper. Illustrations by Pedro Rodríguez (1940-1976), dedicated to highlight the Spanish designer's creative process. The show features an extensive collection of original small and large format illustrations in chronological order, a series that reflects not only the work of Pedro Rodriguez but the savoir-faire of haute couture houses in the so-called Golden Age of Spanish haute couture.
Personal universe is an installation developed by artist Mateo Maté specifically for the Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos, Spain), a Romanesque abbey still inhabited by a small community of Benedictine monks who, although they do not reject certain conveniences and advantages of the modern world (such as computers and medical progress), still organise their daily life according to the strict timetable established by the founders of the order.
