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Liberty in Fashion ★★★★★

09 Oct 15 – 28 Feb 16, Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am – 6pm Thursdays until 8pm Sundays, 11am–5pm

One of the largest private collections of Liberty designs on show in a major exhibition at London's Fashion and Textile Museum

By Helena Kealey on 5/10/2015

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Liberty at Fashion and Textile Museum
Liberty at Fashion and Textile Museum
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The Liberty of London store on Regent Street is a shopaholic's Narnia. From the ground floor, customers can see four floors bursting with treasures towering above their heads, supported by vaulting wooden tudor beams. Delicate silk scarves dance around, wafting the expensive scents from the beauty rooms. This is part of the magic of Liberty London: the extravagance, the endless luxury and the high-end, beautiful designs of Eastern influence. It's spectacular.
To celebrate 140 years of the wonderful Eastern bazaar, founded by Arthur Lazenby all those years ago, a new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile museum looks back over the impact of the iconic English shop on British fashions, including Orientalism and Aesthetic dress in the 19th Century, the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau and Art Deco and in the early 20th century, and the revival of these fashions since the 1950s.
Over 150 of the once most fashionable garments, textiles and objects are on display, dating right back to the 19th century, with work by designers Jean Muir, Yves Saint Laurent, Mary Quant, Vivienne Westwood and Arthur Silver of Silver Studio. And if proof of the broad scope of Liberty's influence was needed, visitors will also get to see a 1890s cape from embroidered Chinese shawls and a Liberty patchwork costume used in the 1973 horror film, The Wicker Man.
Most of the outfits come from the largest collection of Liberty prints in the world, owned by Mark Butterfiled, a collection that was recently responsible for the costume worn by Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne in the 2016 film The Danish Girl. The Danish Girl.
Although these beautiful clothes speak volumes of design innovation and craftsmanship, the overall exhibition lacks the majesty of the store itself. The exhibition is more akin to the musty, moth-eaten cupboard of beautiful clothes that you find yourself in before entering Nania itself. The Fashion and Textiles Museum has arranged mannequins with clothes arranged together by era, which do little to add life or excitement to the wonderful clothes on them.
It's an enjoyable exhibition for fashion history fanatics, but lovers of Liberty London may find a trip to the shops more fun.



by Helena Kealey

What Liberty in Fashion
Where Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey St, London, SE1 3XF | MAP
Nearest tube London Bridge (underground)
When 09 Oct 15 – 28 Feb 16, Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am – 6pm Thursdays until 8pm Sundays, 11am–5pm
Price £9
Website Click here for more information and to book...



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  • Did you know?

    There are three little curiosities eagle-eyed customers wondering around Liberty might notice. 

    1) The weathervane is an exact model of the Mayflower, which took 102 English pilgrims to New England, USA in 1620 (and is responsible for the name of the new print celebrating the 140th birthday of the iconic store). 

    2) Around the mock tudor shop on Great Marlborough Street that now houses Liberty are the shields of Shakespeare and Henry VIII's six wives, among others.

    3) The words under the clock in the Kingly Street entrance of the shop read: 'No minute gone comes back again, take heed and see ye nothing do in vain'. 


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