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The Museum Award is an annual award of £3000 for a textile related project within a museum or archive. It is designed to support projects such as exhibitions or publication that will help achieve greater awareness and access to the public. Deadline this year will be 1 st June 2012. The Professional Development Award is an annual award of £1000, which is aimed at professionals who wish to progress in their career and have a genuine enthusiasm for their project. The deadline date for this is August 1 st 2012. For more information on the awards see www.textilesociety.org.uk The Textile Society’s 3rd London Antique Textiles Fair will be held on the 7th October 2012 at Chelsea Old Town Hall, London SW3. For more information see the website or email atf@textilesociety.org.uk _____ Fashion at the V&A www.vam.ac.uk/page/f/fashion Redesigned Fashion Gallery The V&A’s fashion gallery has been housed in Gallery 40 since the 1950s and is one of the most popular in the Museum. As part of the ambitious FuturePlan to transform the Museum, the fashion gallery is currently undergoing architectural renovation and redesign by 6a Architects. It will re-open in May 2012 to coincide with the Ballgowns exhibition. It will open with a completely re-curated display of fashion from the collection, led by the V&A’s Senior Fashion Curator, Claire Wilcox. Around 100 outfits will be arranged chronologically to reflect the quality and breadth of the V&A’s collections. It will include many outstanding items, from a magnificent mantua from the 1760s, a man’sfrock coat from the 1790s, to an 1850s wedding dress with veil and shoes and a splendid magenta silk crinoline by Mme. Vignon from the 1860s. There will be late 19th-century tailored costumes and high laced walking boots, an embroidered evening coat in the Japanese style by Worth, brightly coloured flapper dresses with an ostrich fan and early tennis wear and swimwear. Also on display will be a Schiaparelli evening coat with embroidered design by Jean Cocteau, a black satin evening dress by Charles James accessorised with an aluminium Art Deco evening bag, a Utility suit with Ascher printed silk scarf, ‘Zemire’ by Christian Dior (1954), as well as other evening dresses by Balmain, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Lanvin Castillo. Op Art designs, works by Ossie Clark and an original Biba dress worn by Barbara Hulanicki will represent British fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. A punk outfit by Vivienne Westwood will rub shoulders with a deconstructed ensemble by Comme des Garcons while a case dedicated to contemporary fashion will include recent acquisitions from Versace, Gaultier, Armani, Helmut Lang, Dior and Dries van Noten. These will be accompanied by shoes by Nicholas Kirkwood and Prada, and fashion photography by Tim Walker. The renovation of the gallery will allow a new, multi-faceted approach to the display, which will incorporate underwear, accessories, textiles, lace, fans, scarves, and jewellery. Fashion dolls, miniature dresses, pattern books, photographs, portraits and chairs from each period will provide contextual background. The Architectural Refurbishment Gallery 40 was designed as a spectacular Edwardian domed court with large alcoves, architectural columns and ornate mosaic flooring. The refurbishment project will reveal and restore the gallery’s original architecture to provide a sense of grandeur, ambience and light. The project will enhance the features of the domed ceiling with a new lighting scheme. The gallery will be fully redecorated, the mosaic floor will be revealed and restored, and the original grand entrances and 40
vistas reopened, reinstating the dramatic scale and architecture of the gallery. This project will also reclaim the mezzanine gallery for displays of fashion and textiles, adding over 400 square metres of display space. ____ Kensington Palace, London, W8 4PX www.hrp.org.uk Kensington Palace will reopen on 26 March 2012 after the conclusion of a £12 million pound transformation. Four new narrative routes will allow visitors to explore Kensington’s history since 1688, while a temporary summer exhibition, opening on 24 May 2012, will explore Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Woven into these exhibitions will be displayed examples of royal and ceremonial dress from Kensington’s Designated Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. At the heart of the new entrance space of the palace will be a specially commissioned light sculpture designed and made by design studio Loop.pH, which has been inspired by historic lace from Kensington’s dress collection. The palace’s new permanent exhibition Victoria Revealed explores Queen Victoria’s life and reign through her own words. Set within the very rooms that Victoria lived in as a child the exhibition brings together an extraordinary, rich collection of over 300 objects including paintings, furniture, jewellery and sculpture. Items of dress include Victoria’s wedding dress and early examples of her mourning dress, as well as her first pair of baby shoes, mourning jewellery and Prince Albert’s dressing case, all providing a truly intimate account of her extraordinary life. The radically transformed State Apartments will tell two stories. Through the Queen’s Apartments the fragile history of the Stuart Dynasty will be uncovered, in an installation created by theatre makers Coney. Coney have also devised a hidden game to be discovered in the King’s Apartments, which explores the social and political games at court, as everyone vied succeed and obtain the eye of the King. Beautiful pieces of 18 th century court dress including a Spitalfields mantua and George III coronation robes will be on display. A small but elegant display Diana, glimpses of a modern princess will contain five dresses worn by the Princess of Wales and showcase the Princess’s evolving style over the years. It includes the famous Emanuel-designed black silk taffeta strapless gown worn by the newly-engaged princess in 1981 and a classic Versace dress which she wore in her later life. Jubilee – A view from the crowd tells the story of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 from the perspective of the thousands of people who celebrated it from duchesses to newspaper sellers. Items of dress include the lace flounce from Queen Victoria’s wedding dress (worn for her Diamond Jubilee portrait) and the Duchess of Devonshire’s dress for her fancy dress ball held in the same year. _____ Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies CECS Day Conference at the King's Manor, University of York, Exhibition Square, York Saturday 23 June 2012, 9.30AM to 5.00pm Desiring Fashion: The Consumption and Dissemination of Dress 1750-1850 41
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