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In Pictures: Coco de Mer x V&A collection

Lingerie brand Coco de Mer has collaborated with the V&A Museum for a second season on an exclusive collection for spring/summer 2019, launching this month. Drawing on the V&A’s archive, the exclusive lingerie collection, ‘The Art of Deco’, explores the escapism of the Jazz Age, an era renowned for its fusion of tradition and modernity, marrying...

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What to expect from the V&A's Christian Dior exhibition

London - The Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), which will mark the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the house of Dior, will feature a dress worn by Princess Margaret, as well couture gowns worn by actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, and Lupita Nyong’...

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What to expect from the V&A's Christian Dior exhibition

London - The Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), which will mark the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the UK on the house of Dior, will feature a dress worn by Princess Margaret, as well couture gowns worn by actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, and Lupita Nyong’...

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V&A to stage largest Christian Dior exhibition in the UK

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has confirmed that it will stage the “most comprehensive” exhibition on Christian Dior ever seen in the UK, spanning from 1947 to the present day, examining the impact of the couturier and the six artistic directors who have succeeded him. Opening in February 2019, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, will...

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Smithsonian teams up with V&A Museum for London Gallery

London - The Smithsonian, the biggest museum in the USA, has announced a new partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London to open a jointly run gallery space. Through the "major new international collaboration" the two aim to open a new, permanent exhibition space near the 2012 Olympic Stadium in East London. The gallery space...

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Hedi Slimane pens Bowie tribute for V&A

London - The Victoria & Albert Museum's thrice yearly publication on the visual arts and fashion sees a photographic and personal tribute of David Bowie by Hedi Slimane in its Spring issue. The Saint Laurent Creative Director previously photographed Bowie for his own book Stage, a study of photographic collaborations with musicians. Bowie's Thin...

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'Savage Beauty' expanded for its homecoming

An expanded and enhanced version of Alexander McQueen's retrospective 'Savage Beauty,' which was originally designed for the Metropolitan Museum in New York, is set to open in London's Victoria & Albert next year. Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty', which went on to become the second most visited at the New York Met museum, is set to stage its...

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V&A Ballgowns

At the weekend the Victoria and Albert Museum launched its latest fashion exhibition, Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950, in its newly renovated V&A fashion galleries. The exhibit, which runs until January 6, 2013, features more than 60 dresses worn and designed by fashion's most famous faces, and includes designs dating back as early as the...

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V&A: Hollywood Costumes

Hollywood’s most iconic costumes will be displayed for the first time at the V&A’s major autumn exhibition from October 20. From Dorothy’s blue and white gingham pinafore dress from The Wizard of Oz, Scarlett O’Hara’s green ‘curtain’ dress designed by Walter Plunkett for Gone with the Wind, to the ‘little black dress’ designed by Hubert De...

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Fashion

Talking menswear with Tommy Nutter exhibit curator

Fashion and design museums seem to be having a menswear moment. With London fashion week now hosting a standalone menswear day to great applaud from press and buyers, suddenly the ‘boring’ connotations of men’s designer wear are being turned around. On the back of this, a number of exhibits, of leading tailors are concurrently happening around...

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