The Tate Modern open their new extension – the Switch House – this week. No dress codes here, but it’s worth thinking about co-ordinating with the grey concrete, the Picasso, Duchamp and Mondrian colour schemes, and Sadiq Khan, who was at the launch
A white-hot new London venue brings with it a dress code, spoken or unspoken. When Richard Caring’s Sexy Fish restaurant arrived in Mayfair last year, the look was all about Balmain, contouring and an over-the-knee boot. (And that was at lunch.) This weekend sees the unveiling of a different kind of landmark in the Tate Modern extension, which opens to the public on 17 June. And while one is, naturally, going to the Tate to see rather than be seen, there is no denying that a space that hosts Picasso, Matisse and Rothko sets the visual bar pretty high.
Oh, and the opening weekend features an installation created for the new live art space by Solange Knowles that (from what we have gleaned off Instagram) features dancers in Tiffany-blue bodysuits. This surely means the odds of Bey and Jay dropping in when she arrives in town for her Wembley dates are pretty high. Clearly, this is an outing for which you need to plan your look.
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