Inside story: handbags that made history
Delve into the background of bags, and you’ll find they were just as coveted in the 1500s as they are now. Emma Cook unpacks the rich inner life of the ultimate accessory
V&A
Fluid and fashionable: V&A shakes up image of ‘traditional’ kimono
Exhibition shows off rich history of Japanese garment in all its three-dimensional glory
Thatcher’s Asprey and Carrie Bradshaw’s Fendi to star in V&A bag show
UK’s widest bag exhibition features Churchill’s dispatch box and Iron Lady’s ‘sceptre’
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World review – revolutions behind the wheel
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The V&A’s finely tuned exhibition tracing the history of the automobile attempts to balance the car’s wide-ranging cultural impact with the environmental costs of its gas-guzzling success
V&A hosts Europe’s first major exhibition on kimono
Catwalk pieces and costumes from Memoirs of a Geisha and Star Wars will feature in show
Documentary series to take viewers behind scenes of V&A
BBC Two to screen programmes in 2020 aiming to tell ‘secrets of the museum’