A Look Back At 2015’s Best Exhibitions With Hamish Bowles

“Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art “Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch” at the Fashion Institute of Technology “Jeanne Lanvin at Musée Galliera” in Paris “Curator Olivier Saillard worked with Alber Elbaz to bring Madame Lanvin’s dramatic and superbly detailed clothes to life.” Yves Saint Laurent at the Fashion Institute of Technology “His theatricality and global gleanings this time effectively juxtaposed with the sleek Americana of Halston, whose dresses are pictured here.” Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Pamela Golbin’s “Déboutonner la Mode,” “Unbuttoned Fashion” “Decorative buttons curated by Veronique Belloir and sourced from a donation of some 3,000 examples by collector Loic Allio. Ranging from high 18th-century costumes to Schiaparelli’s 1930s fantasias.” Metropolitan Museum’s “Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution 1520-1620” British Country Houses Hardwick Hall, Hatfield, and Longleat “Bellissima” at the Royal Villa of Monza Postwar Italian fashion from 1945 to 1968 Valentino in Rome “Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccoli showcased their recent haute couture masterworks with a fascinating voyage around some of the city’s hidden architectural gems.” “Sonia Delaunay: Les Couleurs de l’Abstaction” at the Tate Modern “Her amazing Cubist fashion creations alongside her art” Sayoko at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo “An exhibition dedicated to the work of the fashion model Sayoko, who ruled the fashion runways in the ’70s and early ’80s and then evolved into an artist muse and a creator of art herself.” Twentieth-century underpinnings at the Kyoto Costume Institute An 1880s bustled gown by Charles Frederick Worth at Berlin’s Kunstgewerbemuseum fashion history haute couture collection. Jean Paul Gaultier’s career retrospective in Paris at the Grand Palais Dries Van Noten’s “Inspirations” at the ModeMuseum in the designer’s native Antwerp “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” at the Victoria and Albert Museum Fragonard picture of Cythèra at the Musée de Luxembourg Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s exhibition at Grand Palais. Portrait of La maréchale-comtesse de Mailly “Jean-Etienne Liotard” at London’s Royal Academy Ai Weiwei at London’s Royal Academy “Goya: The Portraits” at London’s National Gallery “Velásquez” at the Grand Palais Piero Fornasetti at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs Daniel Buren’s stained glass panels at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Selgascano Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery Jorge Pardo installation of the Art of the Ancient Americans at LACMA Restored landscape of Olana in upstate New York Huntington in Pasadena “Eighteenth-century swagger portraits” Tadeo Ando’s Chichi Art Museum on Naoshima by Yayoi Kusama Yoshio Taniguchi’s “The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures” in Tokyo David Chipperfield’s restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin The Broad in downtown Los Angeles designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro Splendeurs et miseres des Courtisanes at the Musée d’Orsay designed by opera director Robert Carsen An insight into the underbelly of late-19th-century Paris David Hockney at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles Aix-en-Provence to the Caumont Centre d’Art, Liechtenstein collection. Anthonis Van Dyck’s Portrait of Maria De Tassis (1611-1638)