V&A Magazine

V&A Magazine Summer 2013

Published three times a year, V&A Magazine covers all aspects of the visual arts - architecture, design, craft, photography, fashion and fine art - taking the V&A's exhibition and display programme as its starting point.

V&A Magazine aims to be as accessible, intelligent, entertaining and visually appealing as the museum itself. It is available either as part of the V&A's membership package or on subscription.

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Inside the Summer 2013 issue:

• Iain R Webb takes us by the hand and leads us through 1980s London, from riotous mobs to riotous fashion
• Charlotte Gere looks at how pearls come into being, how they have been depicted and how they attained their power
• Amanda Harlech reflects on the significance that pearls have had since her childhood
• Emily King considers the relationship between literature and visual material, and the state of the book in the twenty-first century
• A poem for V&A Magazine on the theme of memory by Chris McCabe

Cover: Created by Terry Jones, founder and creative director of i-D, for V&A Magazine