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This exhibition will traced the development of the fashionable white wedding dress and its treatment by key fashion designers such as Charles Frederick Worth, Norman Hartnell, Charles James, John ...

Disobedient objects are often everyday items that have been turned to a new purpose. But social change is about making as much as breaking. Sometimes designing a new object creates a new way to ...

Known as 'the master' of haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895 – 1972) was one of the most innovative and influential fashion designers of the 20th century. His exquisite craftsmanship and ...

For wealthy women of the 16th and 17th centuries, embroidery was an important part of everyday life. Clothes, household furnishings and book covers were all embroidered and the more lavish and ...

Art Deco designers drew on many sources in their bid to create a modern style. In the 1920s they looked globally, to the arts of Africa, Asia and Mesoamerica. Meanwhile, archaeological discoveries of ...

The Great Bed of Ware is one of the V&A's greatest treasures. The spectacular four-poster bed is famously over three metres wide – the only known example of a bed of this size, and reputedly able to ...