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Like two heads, two exhibits are better than one. Such is the case with Fashion Project, Bal Harbour Shops' cultural space, dual fashion history exhibitions aptly titled "FP03: The Past" (Oct. 8 to Nov. 5, 2015) and "FP04: The Anniversary" (Nov. 12, 2015 to Jan. 20, 2016), which celebrates the retailer's 50th anniversary. Organized by renowned London curator Judith Clark, the installations kick off with a nostalgic window into the decades of 1915 to 1965 ("The Past," naturally), featuring work by seminal designers like Mary Quant and André Courréges. Picking up from The Past's timeline, "The Anniversary" is sure to thrill modern fashion enthusiasts. The exhibit focuses on the past 50 years in fashion through the lens of Bal Harbour Shops. If divine dresses aren't enough, the celebration is capping off the exhibitions with a four-day film festival exploring the intimate relationship between fashion and cinema—talk about picture perfect. For more information, visit balharbourshops.com —Bee Shapiro PHOTO BY PETER LINDBERGH; CHRISTOFLE; © GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM 48 BAL HARBOUR Tate Modern presents a major retrospective of American Modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, a century after her New York debut. The exhibition is the first solo institutional exhibition of O'Keeffe's work in the United Kingdom in a generation. O'Keeffe excelled as a landscape artist. The exhibition, on view through October 30, will relate her practice back through the American tradition of landscape painting, as well as forward to anticipate the gendered landscapes and statements of feminist artists of later generations. The exhibition will also consider her flower works in the context of her overall production as multi-layered images, relating them to her engagement with abstraction and issues of form and composition. —B.S. SINCE 2002, BOTTEGA VENETA'S CREATIVE DIRECTOR, TOMAS MAIER, has tapped leading contemporary artists and photographers to collaborate on his print campaigns. This month, Rizzoli releases "Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration," a 650-page tome documenting partnerships with Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Robert Longo, Nan Goldin, Nick Knight and Philip- Lorca diCorcia, among others. Here, Maier talks to us about the process of collaboration. "As the creative director, I give the artist the freedom to interpret the collection in their own way, and bring their own signature to the campaign. There would be no point in asking them to collaborate if we were asking them to compromise their vision. The artist is always someone who I admire greatly, and I take great pleasure in discussing the collection with them, and seeing what it provokes in them. Looking through the book, it is clear to see the individual hand of those who have worked on the campaign and the different narratives that they have brought to it… My expectations are always high for the series, and they are most always exceeded." Bottega Veneta's Summer 2013 campaign, shot by Peter Lindbergh, from "Art of Collaboration." Abstraction White Rose, 1927 Artful Eye FIFTY AND FAB! Fashion Project curator Judith Clark