Future Exhibitions
© Pebbles by Jacqueline Groag
Designing Women: Post-war British textiles
16 March 2012 - 16 June 2012
In the years immediately following World War II a new wave of industrial and commercial design swept away the remaining fragments of the 1930s and created an innovative and modern approach to living unprecedented in the UK.
At the visual forefront of this movement and noted for its accessibility was the textile designs of a group of women designers: Lucienne Day, Jacqueline Groag and Marian Mahler. These distinctive printed textiles map out a brave new world of sophistication and optimism.
Beginning with Lucienne Day’s Calyx pattern of 1951, featured at the Festival of Britain and moving through the 1960s and into the 1970s, this exhibition will explore a unique British brand of modernism that influenced the world.
Over 100 works from the collection of Jill A Wiltse and H Kirk Brown will be on display.
© The Printed Square by Nicky Albrechtsen 2012
The Printed Square - Vintage Handkerchiefs
22 March 2012 - 16 June 2012
Vintage handkerchiefs have become a source of inspiration for contemporary fashion brands. With beautiful examples from the 1920s to 1950s, this new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates early twentieth-century handkerchief design in a magnificent display of colour and pattern
© 'Poster Dress '1967, designed by Harry Gordon
POP! Culture and Fashion 1955-1976
6 July 2012 - 27 October 2012
In the 1950s a new wave of rock-n-roll and youth culture from America swept the country and the world. The mix of popular images and music with art and fashion would change the way people dressed - blurring the boundaries of commerce, culture and style.
POP! will explore the impact of music, art and personality on the development of the fashion of the times. From the poodle skirts and embellished leathers of the rockers through to the Punk era, this exhibition will take in the cool stylings of the Mods, the high baroque of Psychedelia and the kitsch glamour of 70s retro by designers such as Mr Freedom and Miss Mouse.
Highlights will include items from Elton John’s personal wardrobe, purple flares worn by Donovan, the pop-art fashions of Mary Quant as well as Quant’s early modernist pieces from the original Bazaar, and original pieces from Westwood and McLaren’s Sex. Furniture, original posters and graphics and promotional materials will help to set the scene while an “I’m Backing Britain” display will create a dramatic centrepiece.
The exhibition will provide new insight into 20 years of popular culture from one of the most comprehensive private collections of design and fashion.
