The Best Luxury Fashion and Design Events this August

The Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Calendar for Fashion and Design highlights notable events in the world of auctions, antiques, art fairs, gallery shows, design shows, fashion and beauty around the globe in August 2018. For the rest of the Luxury Calendar, click here. And don’t forget to check out our list of the best luxury items to shop for in the month of August.

Following a successful week in Helsinki in July, Fashion Week stays put in Scandinavia this month for a week in Stockholm and another in Copenhagen before heading off to New York in September. Also taking place in Scandinavia this month are Code and the Oslo Design Fair.  Elsewhere, you can ArtCrush in Aspen, or visit St. Moritz Art Masters; Design Hamptons; São Paulo Design Weekend; and NY NOW for your fill of all things art and design.

Fashion

Pyer Moss x Reebok is dropping another round of their collaboration this month

Copenhagen Fashion Week takes place – Aug 6 – 12

Appealing to any culturally inclined reader with an interest in Los Angeles, its cultural history, and modern urban style, the new book L.A. Chic: A Locational History of Los Angeles Fashion, provides an in-depth analysis of the social changes, urban processes, desires, and politics that inform how the good life is being re-imagined in Los Angeles – Aug 15

Ikea has previously collaborated with many world class artists and designers.  This time around though, the Swedish home goods retailer partnered not with just one artist, but instead with Hasselblad Cameras, a brand that makes tools that many great artists employ.  Together, Ikea and Hasselblad are releasing a photography collection called Norrhassel that debuts in stores this month.

René Lacoste remains to this day a timeless yet remarkably contemporary fashion icon. Published to celebrate the Lacoste brand’s 85th anniversary, the lavishly illustrated René Lacoste ($35) includes a wealth of photographs and archival documents, some published for the first time, and original drawings by the renowned French illustrator Floc’h – Aug 21

Exhibiting the beauty of African couture, art and fashion to a European and global audience is Africa Fashion Week Amsterdam – Aug 23 – 25

Fashion Week Stockholm showcases Sweden’s most interesting designers and brands – Aug 28 – 30

Inspire your young reader to go discover their own ideas of beauty and embolden the world with their own creativity with Polka Dot Parade: A Book About Bill Cunningham ($17.99) – Aug 28

Melbourne Fashion Week is one of the largest and most popular consumer fashion events in Australia.  Last year brought over 65,000 attendees – Aug 31 – Sept 7

Coinciding with Fashion Week, Vogue American Express Fashion’s Night Out Melbourne will be held throughout the Melbourne Central Business District – Aug 31

Art Shows

ArtCrush at the Aspen Art Museum always draws a glittering crowd and is the major fundraising event benefiting the Aspen Art Museum and Aspen’s premier summer gala – Aug 1 – 3

The Melbourne Art Fair returns as the region’s most significant commercial platform for Australasian contemporary art – Aug 2 – 5

The Seattle Art Fair is at CenturyLink Field Event Center – Aug 2 – 5

Converge45: You In Mind, brings artists, curators, and collectors to Portland for a series of conversations – Aug 9 – 12

The 43rd edition of art and antique fair Art Nocturne Knocke, is one of the most interesting arts fairs of the European summer season, is in Knokke-Heist, Belgium – Aug 11 – 15

Code Art Fair is the only international art fair in Scandinavia and showcases some of the best contemporary art, not only from the Nordic region, but from around the world – Aug 30 – Sept 2

Returning for its 11th edition is the St. Moritz Art Masters – Aug 31 – Sept 9

Design Conferences and Events

Design Hamptons takes place – Aug 9 – 12

Returning to the Javits Center in NYC is NY NOW – Aug 12 – 15

São Paulo Design Weekend is a celebration of Latin American design. It includes hundreds of independent events, from trade fairs to cocktail parties – Aug 29 – Sept 2

Head to Norway for Oslo Design Fair to discover the newest in Norwegian design – Aug 29 – Sept 1

Auctions and Antiques

Bonhams will present an auction of California and Western Paintings & Sculpture, which includes 142 California Impressionist, Fauvist and Tonalist styles by artists such as William Wendt, Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, Joseph Raphael, Edgar Payne, Selden Connor Gile, Armin Hansen and Granville Redmond – Aug 7

Interior designer Anne Spilman and Sarah Bray, interiors editors at Modern Luxury magazine,
created a series of vignettes from luxurious objects offered in the August Interiors sale at Christies – Aug 22

The Sotheby’s Original Film Posters Sale returns with a wide selection of titles. The sale features a strong James Bond section, classics such as Sunset Boulevard, Top Hat and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, as well as sci-fi giants including Star Wars, Forbidden Planet and King Kong – Aug 28 – Sept 4

See other August 2018 Events:

— Travel

— Food & Drink

— Planes, Yachts & Autos

— Fitness & Sports

— Entertainment

— The Arts

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