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📣 PSA - you can now get 2 for 1 tickets across all ticket types to the Africa Fashion exhibition this month!
Bring a friend to see vibrant designs from over 40 designers across the continent.
Just enter the code 'AF241' when purchasing your tickets. Book here:
https://fal.cn/3v5QA
Offer valid until January 31st.
Mindbending Monochromes! 🖤⚪
🖤 The Piano Dress, Karl Lagerfeld, 1985
⚪ Skirt suit, jacket and skirt, black and white optical check wool, Foale & Tuffin, London, 1964.
🖤 Dress in check print, designed by Rabih Kayrouz
⚪ Newspaper suit worn by Suggs from Madness in the video for (Waiting for) The Ghost Train
Contents of an Ostrich's Stomach
A collection of objects retrieved from an ostrich’s stomach incl. gloves and coins, probably lost by zoo visitors.
Ostriches eat small, hard objects to help digestion, but this ostrich consumed a four-inch nail, tragically causing its death.
F.W. Bond, Contents of an Ostrich's Stomach, 1930
You wear what you eat. But can you match the designer to the tasty treat?
🍪 Eileen Agar
🍪 Anya Hindmarch
🍪 Moschino
Edward Penfield's gorgeous illustrations for Harper's Magazine are an American match for the style that Alphonse Mucha and Toulouse Lautrec were popularising in Europe.
Those shown here date between 1895 and 1897.
Remembering David Bowie who would have turned 76 this year. He was born on 8 January 1947.
Celebrating his rebel rebel life and career with some of the Bowie outfits that featured in our 'David Bowie Is' exhibition...
First of 2023!
Sleeveless evening dress of tulle and silver sequins, possibly made in England or France, 1935-1936
Guess the fairy story...
Hand-painted tiles, Designed by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, 1862-1865
Not to be outdone by her famous dad (William Morris), May Morris was a talented designer whose work is said to have been occasionally misattributed to her father.
She was Director of Embroidery at Morris & Co and co-founder of the Women’s Guild of Arts (set up because the Art Workers Guild would not admit women).
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
This poster for P***y Riot's COVID-cancelled Berkeley concert features P***y Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, Edward Abbey quotes [above], and a background of riot grrls, punk rockers, political protesters and political protesters, including Bikini Kill, Blondie, Siouxie Sioux, Patti Smith, Aretha Franklin and Greta Thunberg.
P***y Riot Postponed, Zoltron, 2020
The beauty of these African Prayer Cards - from Madagascar to Zambia to Uganda...
1. Ave Maria, Holy Card, 1945-1970, Religieuses Trinitaires, Madagascar
2. 'Our Lady of Africa' Holy Card, Poor Clares, Zambia, 1960-2000
3. The Martyrs of Uganda Holy Card, late 20th century
Date this picture:
1901, 1972, 2007
British illustrator Julie Verhoeven worked first as an assistant for John Galliano, before launching her own fashion label and then collaborating wtih Versace, Mulberry and Louis Vuitton.
The V&A acquired a collection of her work in 2012 including designs for record sleeves, Christmas cards, Topshop, Jasper Conran and more, all from the late 20th/early 21st century.
Titled 'The Rising of the New Year' by Julia Margaret Cameron, one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century. Her photographs were rule-breaking: purposely out of focus, and often including scratches, smudges and other traces of the artist’s process. Best known for her powerful portraits, she also posed her sitters as characters from biblical, historical or allegorical stories.
Cheers folks.
🎨Line drawing poster by Alan Fletcher; British, ca. 1989.
From Art Noveau illustrator Alphonse Mucha, and from us too.
Mucha became an overnight sensation in 1895, with his characteristic females becoming an ever-present and much-copied leitmotif.
🎨 2 x advertisements by Alphonse Mucha for "Moet et Chandon's Champagne." 1890s.