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Ethical Fashion Debate

This debate aimed to discuss the problems with the way the fashion industry currently operates, such as exploitative labour, environmental damage, the use of hazardous chemicals, waste, and animal cruelty, as well as possible alternatives to dominant High Street Fashion business practices.

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Contemporary New York fashion

Dynamic new fashion labels are invigorating New York's menswear. In the past half-decade, a handful of talented designers have founded clothing lines exclusively for men.

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Historical & cultural sources for 20th-century fashion

Throughout the 20th century cross-cultural and historical influences have exerted a profound impact upon fashion design. The styles, designs and materials of other times and cultures have become more accessible to designers at first hand as improved travel and communications enable continents to be crossed with ease.

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Fashion drawing & illustration: 1960s

The 'Swinging Sixties' saw the emergence of a new youth market as teenagers rebelled against the aesthetics and values of their parents' generation and established their own trends in fashion and music.

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Woman's walking suit, by Jacques Doucet, about 1894

This beige linen suit, embroidered with silk cord, might well have been worn for a tour abroad. When it was conserved, reddish-brown dust was found on the surface.

A gift in your will

You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.

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Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers

Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers

A celebration of the new generation of filmmakers who are exploring the evolving possibilities of motion graphics, broadcast design, digital film effects and animation.

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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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