Tag: fashion

The Costume House: The Inside Story of Cosprop from A Room with a View to Game of Thrones – book review

Film historian Keith Lodwick’s beautifully illustrated and educational book charts the success of costume house Cosprop and the influence of John Bright, the man behind it, on thousands of films and TV adaptations over more than half a century
Marie Antoinette Style

This show looks at the lasting influence of the young queen whose love of fashion and finery saw her scapegoated and derided by the public until her final untimely death
George Hoyningen-Huene: Photography, Fashion, Film – book review

This long overdue look at the life and work of Hoyningen-Huene, a master of photography, combines intriguing insights into the Paris fashion world of the 1930s and beyond, with his pictures of timeless beauty, previously unpublished photographs and private letters
Andy Warhol: The Textiles

If you thought you knew everything about Warhol’s work, this show may surprise you. The curators have unearthed a selection of vintage garments and fabrics printed with designs that reveal Warhol’s wit and eye for a memorable image
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism

A precisely focused exhibition takes us into the disturbing mind of the eccentric 18th-century artist Henry Fuseli through his troubling drawings of contemporary women
Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art

As well as putting artist-made clothing firmly into the category of art, this show also looks at its wider role in gender, protest and cultural differences
Hormazd Narielwalla – interview: ‘True, he’s physically not here, but Bowie, the god, is still with us’

The artist talks about capturing the essence of David Bowie, through the creation of his trademark paper-pattern collages, in his most recent, limited-edition artist’s book
Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion?

How did you choose the clothes you are wearing today, and what do they say about you? This show picked apart fashion and the meaning of dress codes
Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles

This fascinating and engaging exhibition puts the idea of female collectors at the heart of a social and cultural history of textiles
Noritaka Tatehana: Refashioning Beauty

Tatehana’s first solo US exhibition provides a new perspective on symbolism in traditional Japanese culture