fashion history

Louis Vuitton announcing the upcoming Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “About Time: Fashion and Duration”

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  The upcoming Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “About Time: Fashion and Duration” explores how clothes generate temporal associations. The fashion exhibit made possible by Louis Vuitton will trace more than a century and a half of fashion, from 1870 to the present, along a disruptive timeline, as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s … Read more

Still fresh as a daisy: Mary Quant’s era-defining fashion

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Her exuberant clothes catered to women’s new sense of freedom in the 60s and a V&A retrospective shows Mary Quant is as relevant as ever

• My Mary Quant gem: women on the treasures they donated

Why Colette is queen of the influencers

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A new biopic of Colette starring Keira Knightley explores the enduring appeal of the French novelist, polymath and style legend

Rare fashion shows now available for streaming on the Bloomsbury Fashion Central

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YNAP, the world’s leading online luxury fashion retailer, and Bloomsbury, the dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary teaching and research in fashion and dress partner to bring Fashion Video Archive to Educational Market. The resource will be made available for streaming on the multi-award-winning Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform in 2019. YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP (YNAP) and Bloomsbury announced a partnership … Read more

The view from the front row: a history of the fashion show – photo essay

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Once, photographers were banned from fashion shows, with designers suspecting they were spies. Today, fashion shows are a multimillion-dollar global business. As London fashion week begins, we cart the evolution of the fashion show, from secret salons to the snap-happy Instagram era

What do fashion insiders think of Phantom Thread?

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Phantom Thread; image: focusfeatures.com/phantom-thread

 

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