On the catwalk . . .

ONE of the largest travel e-commerce companies in the world, Booking.com and New York-based contemporary fashion brand alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet have partnered to showcase the emotional and cultural touchpoints that travel inspires through Bendet's Spring 2019 collection at New York Fashion Week. 

For the very first time, Booking.com is offering travelers the incredible chance to book a stay at an iconic property serving as the stage for alice + olivia's show, the Fashion Yacht at Chelsea Piers in New York City, complete with shopping sprees for the ultimate fashion week experience.

Anyone interested in taking this fashion journey must be quick as only a few select nights are available for booking. Everyday at at 5:00 p.m. EST on September 5th, 6th and 7th, Booking.com will release a one-night stay aboard the Wonderland Fashion Yacht for September 11th, 12th and 13th respectively.

www.booking.com/hotel/us/alice-olivia-fashion-yacht.html.


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Fashion at Blenheim

A NEW exhibition celebrating three centuries of fashion is to open at Blenheim Palace in February 2017. ‘A Passion For Fashion – 300 Years of Style at Blenheim Palace’ will include unique and historic items from our own priceless collection.

The exhibition will be mounted throughout the Palace with displays in 11 separate locations, and there will be a special digital display featuring the recent Dior S/S17 Cruise collection catwalk show which took place in the State Rooms in May 2016

'A Passion for Fashion’ - 300 years of style at Blenheim Palace runs from February 11th to March 12th 2017.

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It's all about that bustle …

READING the newspapers and celeb magazines, one could easily imagine that the generously proportioned posteriors of Kim Kardashian and J-Lo were a completely new phenomenon, but visitors to a permanent exhibition at York Castle Museum will discover that displaying a rounded rump has been a fashion staple for centuries.

‘Since Elizabethan times, with a few notable exceptions, women’s fashion has been obsessed with highlighting and accentuating a woman’s curves, with corsets used to shape and cinch the waist, and from around 1580, a padded roll – known as a “bum roll” – that was tied around the hips,’ explains senior curator for the Shaping The Body exhibition, Ali Bodley. 

The Victorians took the concept of padding the rear end to more elaborate extremes.  ‘On display, and available for visitors to try on, we’ll have a number of original and replica dresses that feature a cushion that is tied to the waist to add extra volume, or even a shelf-effect, to the rear of women’s dresses,’ says Ms Bodley. ‘Prudish Victorians would not have liked using the vulgar term of “bum roll”, so it became known as a bustle.’

In the mid-19th century, the shape of the dress changed from being voluminous all around to having a relatively modest drape at the front and sides, but with much of the volume at the back, where it fell from the bustle.  Combined with a slim corseted waist, the style created a unique silhouette that highlighted curves without challenging Victorian decency standards.

In the exhibition, visitors will see not only the outer garments, but examples of historic corsetry, from an iron corset that was probably intended to support a woman with some back injury or defect, to a delicate 19-inch waist corset designed for a young woman and to be sufficiently comfortable to be worn during genteel sporting activities such as horse riding or tennis.

Alongside fashions from the last 400 years, Shaping The Body explores body modification – from Victorian ear straighteners to modern gender re-assignment, tattoos, and piercings – and the relationship between food and body image, from the original Sugar Tax to modern diets.  Visitors will also discover how lifestyle changes have changed body shapes, comparing the labour intensive work of farmers and domestic staff with today’s office-based culture.

“Shaping The Body: 400 years of food, fashion, and life” opened at York Castle Museum on March 25.

www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk

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A history of fashion in 100 objects

BATH’S fashion museum is to unveil a new exhibition on March 19: A History of Fashion in 100 Objects. Celebrating fashion from the 1500s to the present day, it will showcase 100 star objects drawn from the museum's collection. 

The exhibition, which will run until January 2018, will feature garments and fashion accessories that created the look of history or hit the headlines. From a late 1500s 'blackwork' embroidered man's shirt to a 'body-con' Galaxy dress of the early 2000s, the exhibition will present iconic and influential garments and accessories spanning five centuries of fashion design.

One of the earliest fashion garments to go on display is an intricately embroidered woman's jacket – known at the time as a waistcoat – worked in coloured silks and glittering metal thread and dating from the 16th century.

Silk robes and embroidered and tailored coats for men, the styles fashionable during Bath's Georgian heyday, will also be on display, along with Regency fashions from the time of Jane Austen. 

The finale of A History of Fashion in 100 Objects is a selection of the most recent choices in the museum's Dress of the Year collection, commencing with the Dress of the Year 2011, a frock in ivory silk tulle embroidered with tiny silver bullion eagle motifs by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen. 

The exhibition will include four collections of accessories to dress – gloves, fans, and jewellery. These include a collection of 17th century gloves.

www.fashionmuseum.co.uk

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Westwood on show

THE impact of 18th century art and design on the work of distinguished British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood will be highlighted in an exhibition at Danson House, Bexleyheath, Kent, this spring.

Vivienne Westwood: Cut from the Past brings together for the first time a number of her ground-breaking designs, and explores the collections that proved to be her turning point both critically and commercially.

The exhibition – www.dansonhouse.org.uk - which runs from April 1 to October 31 – highlights Westwood’s seminal work of the 1990's, which was influenced by 18th century artists.

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The Georgian passion for fashion

"What! Is this my son Tom?" 

"What! Is this my son Tom?" 

A 1774 caricature on the extreme 

"Macaroni" fashions of the 1770s and a 

Poem in satirical caricature.......

Our wise Forefathers would express

Ev'n Sensibility in Dress ;

The modern Race delight to Shew

What Folly in Excess can do.

The honest Farmer come to town, [i.e. to London]

Can scarce believe his Son his own.

If thus the Taste continues Here,

What will it be another Year?

SOME of the finest accessories of the 18th century are on display in a major fashion exhibition – 

Head to Toe: Accessorising the Georgians – at Fairfax House in York. 

It runs until November 2. 

Featuring an array of historic accessories dating from 1700 to 1820 and features shoes, fans, hats, waistcoats, garters, stockings, buttons, and gloves, as well as other more exotic forms of accessories.

Male accessories also form a key part of the exhibition revealing that vanity and the pursuit of fashion was not for the female realm alone. A pair of stockings for men with specially padded calves are among the more unusual forms of Georgian fashion accessory on display, clearly defining the fashionable taste for a well-shaped, muscular ‘manly’ leg in Georgian Britain. Other pieces include a rare set of 18th century patches worn to conceal smallpox marks on the face, and eyebrows made from mouse hair.

www.fairfaxhouse.co.uk

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Feathers in fashion

From the exhibition at The Bowes Museum Birds of Paradise - Plumes & Feathers
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A STRIKING exhibition opens next month (October 25) at the Bowes Museum’s Fashion & Textile Gallery, its only British venue. 

Birds of Paradise – Plumes and Feathers in Fashion is a tribute to the elegance of feathers used in the fashion industry past and present, featuring extravagant catwalk creations from British, Belgian, French, and Italian designers including Alexander McQueen, Dries Van Noten, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Balenciaga, Prada, and Gucci.

‘Whereas in the past, feathers were generally appreciated for their value and refinement, contemporary designers now see them as an expression of freedom and spirituality,’ said the Museum’s Keeper of Textiles, Joanna Hashagen.

The fashion for feathers as accessories is also revealed with tantalizing displays of fans, hats, including a number by Stephen Jones, and sumptuous feather shoes from Roger Vivier.

The exhibition runs until April next year at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, near Darlington, Co. Durham. See more at: www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk

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