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Yesterday the MSL team came together to celebrate an exclusive preview of their latest product: Behind the Seams. Prestigious fashion journalists and bloggers were invited from all over London for the preview. Prosecco flowed throughout the day and the most exquisite cupcakes were served on a spectacular wire cake stand. It provided the perfect get...
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Somerset House has been home to the sophisticated and fabulous since the dawn of time. It is the hub of the fashion world during fashion week and now, it is attracting a new fashion crowd with it’s current exhibition ‘Making It Up As We Go Along: Twenty Years of Dazed and Confused’. Dazed and Confused...
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The long awaited Leonardo da Vinci exhibition has finally arrived. Posters are plastered to every billboard in the area and banners hang outside the entrance to the gallery. Hoards of people gather outside London’s national gallery, forming endless queues that snake around the corners of Trafalgar Square, all hoping to get a golden ticket that...
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For centuries Venice has inspired intellectuals with its strangeness, artists with its beauty and couples all over the world have breathed its innate romanticism. Despite its magic essence the real Venice is most definitely in peril. Many of its buildings are threatened by flooding and the mass tourism is making it even more fragile. For...
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Every three months, fashion enthusiasts gather in the V&A’s Raphael Gallery to experience a new show in the ‘Fashion In Motion’ series. On Friday 18th November, the show featured the designer Peter Jensen as he celebrated his ten year anniversary with a retrospective show. The Fashion in Motion series has featured some of the greatest...
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Nestled amongst twinkling candle light, piles of goodies, including our book ‘Semple: Women Fashion Stories’, filled the tables of the The Ivy Club’s inviting Loft Room on Tuesday night. Our friends and supporters started to enter our informal celebration, happily greeting and meeting each other and while the drinks flowed, a sense of anticipation and...
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Born into a musical family in 19th Century Paris and graduating from the Lycee-Louise-Le-Grand with a baccalaureate in literature, Edgar Degas seemed destined to be infamously creative. The Royal Academy of Art’s newest exhibition is a celebration of Degas’ work; entitled ‘Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement’, the curators have put together an extensive collection...
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Gerhard Richter is known worldwide for his diverse and sometimes abstract approach to painting. Leaving his homeland of Communist East Germany, he travelled to Dusseldorf in 1961, where he became a painter. Fifty years later, his work is celebrated in an exhibition at the Tate Modern, which brings together his key works of art including...
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Proclaiming he is not a historian, but an artist, Grayson Perry asks us not to look for meaning in his newest exhibition held at the British Museum. But as Grayson lets us into his wonderfully imaginative world, it is hard not to see the meaning behind both his own work, and the pieces that he...
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It is said that we still feel the effects of postmodernism now. As the Semple team began to take the tour through the age of postmodernism at the V&A, we let this notion amble through our thoughts. The concept challenged Modernism and rebelled from the previous, utopian perfection which the previous art movement strived for....
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