The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon

This display traces the history of the Burberry trench coat from its origins as practical outerwear and military attire to a world-renowned icon of fashion, rooted in a contemporary British sensibility and celebrated globally
Display

  • Opens Monday, 21 September 2026

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL

  • Prince Consort Gallery

  • Free

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Plato's Atlantis, dress, Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2010, London, England. Museum no. T.11-2010. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Detail of the personalised label in British fashion designer Hardy Amies’s Burberry car coat, 1979. © Burberry