Autobiographies can be an interesting source for historians. They don’t always tell you what you want to know but rather what the subject thinks is important. The V&A Fashion Perspectives series features many autobiographies from different fashion designers. Just like the designers featured, they vary […]

The Fashion Rules exhibition at Kensington Palace, staged in 2013 has to be one of my favourite exhibitions of all time. It was one of the first true exhibitions I visited (rather than a permanent museum display), and it grabbed me immediately. While the Diana: Her […]

Sadly the Victoria Revealed exhibition at Kensington Palace had closed by the time that I arrived in the UK, so I wasn’t able to see it. I have seen two different Victoria exhibitions at KP, but it would have been nice to see it as well. However, […]

Fashion history is an ever-growing field, with more and more perspectives coming out. And fashion and textile museums and organisations across the globe are putting their collections online. (Some because of Covid-19, but many were doing it before!) And not that it has ever stopped […]

Back again, with my monthly style history post! I truly enjoy writing all of these posts, but I’ve been excited to share this particular designer for quite some time. When you discuss modern English fashion history, Norman Hartnell has to be one of the first […]