Take a bow / Savage Beauty
Savage Beauty has to be the most talked-about exhibition opening this year. The 70,000 tickets that have already been sold are record-breaking, as they even surpass the David Bowie exhibition the Victoria & Albert hosted a few years ago. But don’t fret, there are about 200 tickets that are sold every day at the museum, […]
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn – the original supermodel
While strolling through the newest fashion exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum on photographer Horst P. Horst there was one model that repeatedly caught my eye. I realised I had seen a picture of her earlier in the year at the V&A’s fashion photography exhibition (wrote a post about it as well!). A strong, elegant […]
Selling dreams – 100 years of fashion photography @V&A
Lately I’ve been reading more about the great fashion photographers and this exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum was just the perfect match. ‘Selling Dreams: 100 years of Fashion Photography’ is a small, complementary exhibition to the Glamour of Italian Fashion exhibition and it’s the perfect brief fashion photography history lesson. In the 1840s there […]
Meadham Kirchhoff Fashion in Motion @ the V&A
The Meadham Kirchhoff Fashion in Motion show was really magnificent and quite magical; not “pretty princess in a castle” magical but, the dark Queen magical, and even more than that if I may add. Opening scene The darkness of the show was quite eery and calming at the same time, I realised soon after that […]
Fashion in Motion: Kansai Yamamoto
On the occasion of the upcoming Fashion in Motion show of Meadham Kirchhoff at the V&A, I decided to talk about the first Fashion in Motion show I went to. The Victoria & Albert Museum hosts live fashion shows of various designers to make fashion couture accessible to a wider public against the beautiful backdrop […]
In conversation: Henry Holland at The Fashion festival
During the 2013 annual Fashion Festival at the Victoria and Albert museum I had the chance to be in the audience of the talk between Henry Holland and Scarlett Kilcooley, Junior Editor at British Vogue. Henry revealed all about the beginning of his company House of Holland, the collaborations he has done as well as […]