The Trustees and Director of the Design Museum invite you to the press view of the major summer exhibition The Offbeat Sari

 

Natasha Poonawalla at The Met Gala in May 2022. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI/Alamy Live News

The Trustees and Director of the Design Museum invite you to the press view of the major summer exhibition The Offbeat Sari.

WHEN: Wednesday 17 May 2023 10:30 — 13:30, with an introduction from the Design Museum’s Head of Curatorial Priya Khanchandani at 11:15

WHERE: 224 – 238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG     

The Offbeat Sari is the first large-scale exhibition in the UK to examine the contemporary sari. It brings together over 90 examples of trailblazing saris, nearly all on loan from designers and studios across India, and includes the first sari to be worn at the Met Gala (in 2022 — pictured).

FURTHER ENQUIRIES: pr@designmuseum.org 

The Offbeat Sari will run at the Design Museum from  May 19 to  September 17, 2023.

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