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Year: 2017
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion at the V&A, London
The V&A’s new fashion exhibition celebrates the 80th anniversary of the opening of Balenciaga’s first Parisian couture house and showcases his innovations in the cut and construction of women’s garments. Bringing together over 100 dresses, jackets, suits and millinery from Balenciaga’s couture line, Eisa (Balenciaga’s Spanish diffusion range) and contemporary designer pieces. Experience the modernity…
The Story of a Wedding Dress
Beneath the hum of the traffic on London Wall, the archives of the Museum of London sprawl in identical stacked rows. There are over 100 wedding dresses neatly packed in acid free boxes here; a collection that would excite fashion buffs and brides to be. A wedding dress fashioned from an Indian sari 86 years…
Fashion on a Ration: the Influence of WWII Style
A review of ‘Fashion on the Ration’ on at the Imperial War Museum (London 2016, Manchester 2017) When we hear the phrase ‘Make do and Mend we think World War II and clothes rationing. But where did the phrase come from? WWII started in 1939 but the ‘Make do and Mend’ campaign wasn’t launched by…