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CELEBRATE LONDON FASHION WEEK IN THE CITY
AS the world’s fashionistas
descend on London, find
out more about the Square
Mile’s history with cloth and
fashion.
Walking Tour – The Fashion
History of the Culture Mile
Head to the Culture Mile this London
Fashion Week to explore this vibrant
neighbourhood and its long history with
fashion and the cloth trade dating back
to Roman times.
On this walking tour, you’ll discover
some of the area’s most iconic sights
– including historic Smithfield, the
modernist Barbican Estate and the
gleaming new towers around Moorgate
– to find fashion and clothing woven into
the story at every turn.
Led by a former fashion journalist,
City of London Green Badge guide and
Culture Mile resident, Susannah Cohen
AITG. This walking tour uncovers the
neighbourhood’s rag trade roots, from
medieval cloth merchants to the Jewish
immigrants who shaped the industry
and the role of power dressing in the
City today.
Date: February 22
Time: 12.30-14.00
Start: Farringdon station
(Elizabeth Line exit)
End: Moorgate underground station
(Elizabeth Line)
Duration: 90 minutes
Susannah Cohen AITG.
Unravel – The Power and Politics
of Textiles in Art.
Barbican Art Gallery
Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international
artists challenge power structures
and reimagine the world in this major
group exhibition.
Textiles cover and protect us, engage
our senses, trigger our memories, represent
our beliefs, hold our stories. We are
wrapped in cloth when we’re born and
enshrouded in it when we die.
As an artistic medium, textiles can speak
to the joys and pains of being human, as
well as the larger structures and systems
that shape our world.
In this major group exhibition, 50
international, intergenerational artists use
textiles to communicate vital ideas about
power, resistance and survival. From intimate
hand-crafted pieces to monumental
sculptural installations, these works
offer narratives of violence, imperialism
and exclusion alongside stories of resilience,
love and hope.
•Running from February 13 to May 26
Louise Bourgeois with her sculpture,
THREE HORIZONTALS, in her home on
20th Street in New York City in 1999 © The
Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY and
DACS, London 2023, courtesy The Easton
Foundation
Teresa Margolles, american Juju for the
Tapestry of Truth, 2015 Courtesy the artist
and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich/ Paris
Feliciano Centurión, Eye with ñanduti c.1994,
from La Mirada [the Gazing Eye series]
Courtesy Cecilia Brunson Projects and Familia
Feliciano Centurión
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Boy on a Globe,
2008 © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. All Rights
Reserved, DACS 2023, courtesy the artist and
Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londonry, London