Edward Enninful curates the first exhibition to read British art, photography and fashion of the 1990s together, from Corinne Day and Damien Hirst to Alexander McQueen.
Edward Enninful curates The 90s: Art and Fashion at Tate Britain on Millbank, the first exhibition to read the decade’s British art, photography and fashion as one story. It runs from Thursday 8 October 2026 to Sunday 14 February 2027.
Enninful, born to a Ghanaian army officer and a seamstress, became the youngest fashion editor of an international magazine at 18. He lived the decade from inside its studios.
The show gathers nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers and more than 100 works. It opens on the grunge realism of Corinne Day and Juergen Teller. It then follows the clubs, from acid house to jungle, through Mark Leckey’s 1999 film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore.
Beside the Young British Artists stand the voices Cool Britannia left out. Steve McQueen’s first major film, Bear, made in 1993, plays near Chris Ofili’s Turner Prize-winning No Woman, No Cry, his tribute to Doreen and Stephen Lawrence. Suits by Ozwald Boateng mark the rise of Black British design.
Fashion fills the closing rooms, where Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan meet Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde sculptures. The show ends with Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Yinka Shonibare.