Sewing our own clothes enables us to pick up ideas from the high street, adapt the designs to create our own look. I particularly get ideas from street style. E.g. taking note of what people are wearing on the tube, bus or out shopping. Where do you get your sewing inspiration from? How do you…
Part one of my Norfolk stash of vintage fabrics I hope you managed to get some time off this summer to enjoy some sunshine. I spent my holiday in sunny Norfolk and did rather a lot of vintage fabric shopping. I was sad to find a couple of my favourite antique shops had shut down, thankfully I discovered…
Have you been lucky enough to get a ticket to the sold out Chanel exhibition at the V&A in London? Every garment on display is incredibly beautiful from the simple wearable designs to the luxurious textiles. Sadly, I don’t have any vintage Chanel fabric (not that I’m aware of anyway!). Instead, I’ve created an edit…
Wondering what to do tomorrow? Vintage shopping is always a fun Sunday activity. I’m at Judy’s vintage fair tomorrow with my vintage fabric stand. Find me at the Eco Pavilion amongst all the fashion stalls. £4 entry ticket (£5 early bird) also gets you entry to the Furniture Flea down the road at the Art…
Part One: Textiles Exhibition Review from the Chanel fashion exhibition at the V&A London Gabrielle Chanel is one of the most important designers of the past 100 years. She was The 19th Century designer.Oriele Cullen, Curator of the exhibition at the V&A, South Kensington (1) Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto is a hot ticket. As a…
V&A Dundee Tartan is the first exhibition curated especially for the Dundee branch of the V&A, which opened in 2018. ‘The exhibition celebrates the global story of Tartan. It champions tradition and playful design. Displaying 400 designs and objects, Tartan is a set of rules to be broken.’ Curator Kirsty Hassard explains at an online…
Andy Warhol Fabric Exhibition at The Fashion & Textile Museum London Rushing along the Southbank of the Thames, I was already late to meet my husband in Bermondsey, when I noticed a Quentin Blake exhibition at the Bankside Gallery. I cursed for not having time to pop in and waded through the crowds by The…
Edwina Ehrman, Fashion Curator of the new V&A exhibition, Fashioned from Nature gave a lecture on her thought process during the curation the exhibition. Opened in time for Fashion Revolution Week, this insightful exhibition explores the relationship between fashion and nature as both a source of fibre and a design influence. It tackles the complex…
