MSL love to know the history of garments and with summer holidays just around the corner we today look to the bikini. The two piece swimsuit, which we have come to associate with sandy beaches, is no new invention. In fact, drawings of bikini-like suits have been found on wall paintings dating back as late as...Read More
Team MSL were privileged to get the opportunity to attend the Brighton University Developments in Dress History Conference. Over three days the conference reflected upon the discipline of dress history and its current place within academic fields of art and humanities. ‘Because of the multi-faceted levels at which clothing functions within any society and any...Read More
‘His was the kind of genius that only comes around once in a generation.’ That is what Kristin Knox, ‘The Clothes Whisper’ blogger and journalist turned author, had to say of the legendary sartorial God that was Lee ‘Alexander’ McQueen, at her talk which took place at the V&A on Monday the 16th May. A memoriam...Read More
On Thursday 7th April the Semple team went to the V&A to view their current major exhibition The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900. The Cult of Beauty is a close examination of the Aesthetic movement which gripped Victorian culture in Britain between 1860 and 1900. At this time aesthetes sought to escape the...Read More
On Wednesday 6th April the Semple team went to the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition which takes place until 10th July 2011 at the V&A. Yohji Yamamoto is a retrospective of the Japanese born designer’s work to date. His story is told through many mediums including, of course, the outfits he produced but also behind the scenes...Read More
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