The Barbian: The Vulgar : Fashion Redefined
Despite its previously negative connotations, the exhibition challenges our premeditated associations with the word and how it could be more closely interlinked with beauty, rather being a definition of bad taste. Vulgar was stigmatised as the ordinary, over accessible and the shared, yet the collection invites you to explore the meaning and opens your eyes about how the term could coin even the most precious items. Designer's input help to narrate the exhibition and adds depth to the controversial term, Stephen Jones suggests how "it puts spice in everything I do" and how "the Vulgar and the fashion have to keep an eye on each other." The definition in a sense is a puzzle, and it is a definition I am sure will change in your own mind after experiencing this gallery, prepare to be hit with a wave of a new meaning.
V&A: You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970
Immerse yourself into the late sixties; embrace the music, fashion and cultural impacts that have shaped our society. Featuring fashion icons like Twiggy, music legends like Jimi Hendrix and influential power leaders like Martin Luther King, it allows you to leave a buzz of adrenaline from the hippy movement, whilst notably inspired by cultural changes. The retro styling is inspired and energised, with vinyls that adorn the walls, Pop Art prints that scream for attention and admiration and videos that bring into essence the zeitgeist of the times, the exhibition in it self is an experience, and an exceptional one at that.
V&A: Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear
Explore an alluringly seductive timeline of history's underwear as the V&A brings to life a narrative of women who have moulded their figures with various contraptions to appear as the 'perfect woman.' In association with L'Agent Provocateur, the upstairs of the exhibition is certainly sexy, however, the downstairs is startling, with horrifying x-rays of how corsets crushed a woman's ribs; and displays corsets with alarmingly minuscule waists, measuring at a tiny 48 centimetres, when the UK average 12 is 71 - it provokes a notion where you're glad you don't live in that era. One thing is prevalent, how ever-changing the definition of the 'perfect' woman switches and how fashion must adopt to represent the new ideal. Out of the three collections this is my favourite, with mesmerising appeal and insightful documentation, it is absolutely worth the visit!
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