V&A unveiled couture Christmas Tree installation for 2022, designed by Korean fashion designer Miss Sohee. Every year to celebrate the festive period, the V&A Museum London commissions a designer to create a Christmas tree for the museum’s Grand Entrance at Cromwell Road. These unique installations range from lavishly decorated real trees to hand-crafted twists on … Read more
Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri talks about aligning the fashion house with modern feminism ahead of the exhibition opening
The Chinese megacity has grown rapidly over the last 35 years and with its new Sea World Culture and Arts Centre opening in December it’s looking to make as big an impact in culture as it has in industry
The Victoria & Albert Museum hosted the three best-attended exhibitions in London this year. “Alexander Mcqueen: Savage Beauty” show at V&A Museum was the most popular London exhibition in 2014/2015, according to a survey by LondonExhibitions. A total of 493,043 tickets were sold for the show, making it the V&A’s most popular exhibition in its … Read more
What is Luxury? (25 April – 27 September 2015, a V&A and Crafts Council Exhibition) will interrogate ideas of luxury today. Victoria and Albert Museum asks ‘What is Luxury?‘ and how it relates to our everyday lives in a new exhibition challenging our definitions of what luxury means. “As its title suggests, the exhibition questions … Read more
Experience the beauty and allure of pearls. Pearls have long been associated with wealth, royalty and glamour. This autumn London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Qatar Museums Authority explore the history of pearls from the early Roman Empire through to present day. The exhibition has dedicated areas for “Pearl fishing in the … Read more