Dirty Weekend (18+): Celebrating Fashion and Filth

Looking for a dirty weekend? The Barbican is going strictly 18+ for one weekend only. It’s all in honour of its big Autumn exhibition Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion, which traces fashion’s obsession with all things dirty, grimy and messy. For this weekend of events, it’s dialling it up a notch and looking at how fashion is influenced by sex, sweat, protest, and pleasure through performances, talks, screenings, live art, and late-night club energy. HOWL, the queer rave and sexual wellness brand, will be putting on screenprinting workshops and speed dating nights, a new collaboration between artist Sophie Cundale and author Izabella Scott will take place in the Barbican Conservatory and foyer takeovers will range from an x-rated fashion show to a club night from Club Stamina championing trans-femme talent.