A Tate Britain exhibition titled The 90s: Art and Fashion, curated by Edward Enninful, will survey Britain’s art and fashion of the decade with work from nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers, including the Young British Artists, Alexander McQueen and Damien Hirst.

Enninful portrays 1990 as a transitional moment in London marked by greater access, representation, and a challenge to established creative hierarchies.

The narrative includes movements and voices previously excluded from the mainstream Cool Britannia story, concluding with works by Yinka Shonibare, Maud Sulter, Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano that probe Britain’s past, future, and national mythology.

The show frames the 1990s as a period of energetic cultural change, highlighting new voices across art, fashion, music, and image making, and argues that it established enduring conditions such as the blurring of high and low culture and increased diversity.

Key works to be featured include Steve McQueen’s Bear (1993), Chris Ofili’s Turner Prize-winning No Woman, No Cry (1998), and Keith Piper’s video addressing sport and national identity, alongside photography and film capturing club culture at Hacienda and Bagley’s.

The exhibition reinterprets nostalgia as insufficient, presenting the era as an ongoing, evolving moment rather than a closed chapter.

Themes of access, diversity, and visibility are emphasized, underlining the decade’s lasting impact on how culture is created and consumed.

Enninful, born in Ghana and raised in Ladbroke Grove, is noted for championing diversity and was awarded an OBE in 2016 for services to fashion.

Photographs by Corinne Day, Nigel Shafran, and Juergen Teller—seen in publications like i-D and Dazed & Confused—will accompany major artworks such as Ofili’s No Woman, No Cry.

Overall, the show emphasizes that the decade’s influence persists in shaping contemporary thinking about visibility, access, and who gets seen in culture, rather than offering a nostalgic recap.

The show spotlights the era’s DIY, anti-fashion attitude and influential photography and film, featuring Corinne Day, Nigel Shafran, Juergen Teller, Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, and fashion-arts crossovers from Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan.

More than 100 photographs, paintings, sculptures and garments will be exhibited across multiple rooms, featuring works by Corinne Day, Nigel Shafran, and Juergen Teller alongside Chris Ofili’s No Woman, No Cry.