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20th-century fashion reading list

Recommended reading about 20th century fashion.

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Contemporary photography reading list

Reading list for contemporary photography

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The fashion design process - Royal College of Art

London's Royal College of Art started its fashion programme in 1948. It welcomes aspiring designers with undergraduate degrees and prepares them for fashion careers through technical workshops, specialist lectures, project critiques and work experience. The Future Fashion Now display (22 May 2009–31 January 2010) featured highlights from the RCA fashion MA graduates' final collections and revealed aspects of the design process: the research, the development and the technical skill.

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Fashion drawing & illustration: 1970s

The 1970s were a pioneering decade, and saw the evolution of fashion into a proclamation of individuality. Seen as the reflection of the taste of the wearer, one of the consequences of these sartorial changes, was that fashion increasingly, became the concern of men as well as women.

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Fashion in Motion: Eley Kishimoto

The Eley Kishimoto Fashion in Motion live catwalk event took place on 28 March 2003. Celebrating ten years in the fashion and textile industries, Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto presented an inspiring array of garments from their past and current collections.

British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

31 March–12 August 2012

Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.

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Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back

Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back

A fascinating visual insight into the dramatic relationship between contemporary fashion and history published to coincide with a groundbreaking exhibition at the V&A.

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Event - Displaying Fashion

Wed 06 June 2012 13:00

LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Learn about the redisplay of the V&A permanent collection in the newly refurbished Fashion Gallery and new ways of displaying fashion in the 21st century with curator Claire Wilcox.

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