Showing stars such as Sophia Loren, Bridget Bardot and Audrey Hepburn wearing Italian designs, it has been put together by Scottish photographer Rankin and Italian fashion writer Anna Battista. The 50 pictures have been taken from collections all over the world and brought together to show Italian style and grace on film. Italian fashion and … Continue reading
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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Fashion for the High Street
Closing Date: Monday 26th May 2010 Background Applications are invited for this AHRC-funded three year collaborative doctoral award, entitled ‘Fashion for the High Street. The design and making of menswear in Leeds 1945-1980’, tenable in the School of History at the University of Leeds, in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries. This project will investigate … Continue reading
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
Victoria & Albert Museum, London 24 September 2011 – 8 January 2012 Rooms 38 and 39, and North Court Admission charge will apply The ideas of Postmodernism emerged first in architecture. While the Modernist slogan had been ‘less is more’, architects like Robert Venturi, Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi insisted that ‘less is a bore’. … Continue reading
Object of Fashion 