Six Prayers (1966-7) Anni Albers (1899- 1994) was a leading innovator of 20th Century modernist abstraction. Her work combined the ancient craft of weaving with the ideas and styles of modern art. She was a lady of many trades: an artist; a designer; teacher and a writer. The exhibition explores different aspects of her life: […]
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Night & Day:1930’s Fashion and Photography Exhibition
Beautiful sequined gown, early to mid-1930s. Sequins became popular in the 1920s, inspired by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. (1922) The 1930s followed the decade of the roaring 20’s, with the Wall Street crash in 1929, the years that followed saw a great deal of change for Britain and America. With the 1930s, came the […]
Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up – Exhibition Visit
The exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up is currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and we recently took the chance to visit. This unique show gives a detailed overview of Kahlo’s life: her family and heritage; her politics; her relationship with mural painter Diego Rivera; the near-fatal accident that caused her a […]
V&A: Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London
Just as you enter the V&A from the Grand Entrance on Cromwell Road, to your left you will come to this wonderful exhibit about the life of John Lockwood Kipling, Father of the famous poet, Rudyard Kipling. It’s not all that often that you get the opportunity to see this kind of Indian heritage, but […]
Molly Goddard’s ‘What I Like’ Exhibition at the NOW Gallery
Central Saint Martins graduate and one of London’s newest emerging designers, Molly Goddard, is holding a new, interactive exhibition at Greenwich’s NOW Gallery where you are invited to sit and embroider one of her floor to ceiling tulle dresses for free. When an opportunity like this comes up we just had to go and check […]
Great Toronto: New Artist Textiles at the Fashion and Textiles Museum
To celebrate London Design Festival, the Fashion & Textile Museum held a pop-up exhibition taken from the Textile Museum of Canada. The collection, Greater Toronto: New Artist Textiles, made its first appearance outside of North America at the Fashion & Textile museum, where it displayed fabric print designs from ten Canadian artists. The collection exploring […]