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Category: Fashion

Tim Walker: Wonderful Things at the Victoria & Albert Museum

7th October 20197th October 2019  Gabriela Frost

By raiding the V&A’s archives and permanent collections, fashion photographer Tim Walker has created an immersive exhibition that’s enchanting and full of promise.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, FashionTagged: Cecil Beaton, Fashion, Grayson Perry, Joanna Lumley, Margaret Atwood, Photography, Shona heath, Tim Walker, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, V&A, Wonderful Things

Camp: Notes on Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

30th June 201914th July 2019  Georgia Good

Following its grand opening at the Met Gala, the exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion explores the concept of ‘camp’ through a Sontagion lens and reveals its cultural, political and social significance today, writes our contributor Georgia Good.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, FashionTagged: Alessandro Michele, Andrew Bolton, Andy Warhol, Aubrey Beardsley, Balenciaga, Camp, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Caravaggio, Christopher Isherwood, Coronation Street, Johan Zoffany, Louis XIV, Mannerism, Met Gala, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Notes on Camp, Oscar Wilde, Pre-Raphaelite, Rosso, Salvatore Ferragamo, Susan Sontag, Swan Lake, The Costume Institute, Yves Saint Laurent

Brands: Stop Using Suicide to Sell Your Products

21st March 201921st March 2019  Helen Long

After Burberry’s recent fashion “faux pas” with its fall/winter 2019 collection, Helen Long considers how brands need to be more responsible when it comes to the depiction of violence and suicide.

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Posted in Arts, Fashion, Film and Media, OpinionTagged: 13 Reasons Why, Burberry, Fashion, Mental Health, netflix

Haute Couture: Past, Present and Future

22nd January 201919th February 2019  Julia Bagguley

Julia Bagguley leads us through the history of haute couture in anticipation of the V&A’s upcoming exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, FashionTagged: Cecil Beaton, Christian dior, Christian Dior Designer of Dreams, Coco Chanel, Dior, Gianfranco Ferré, Haute Couture, John Galliano, Maria Grazia Chiuri, Megan markle, Richard Alvedon, The Devil Wears Prada, The New Look
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