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Savage Beauty London!

Posted by Marloes Dadswell on Tuesday, August 18, 2015,

As soon as we saw the reports in the media about the exhibition about Lee Alexander McQueen named Savage Beauty in New York we agreed; this needs to be witnessed up close! Hearing soon after, the exhibition would move to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a date was set and the count down began. Combining two of my favourite things; London and avant garde fashion. Accompanied by glorious weather and what seemed like the rest of Europe, we headed towards South Kensington and joined the ...


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Imagine the smell of new silk...

Posted by Marloes Dadswell on Tuesday, August 18, 2015,

Corsetry and so called waist training is making a massive comeback or have corsets simply never really left at all? Even after the Victorians, corsets have been a staple part of fashion even if sometimes invisible and used as the base of a haute couture gown or wedding dress. Sexy girdles in the fifties worn with those iconic seemed stockings and gorgeous corset like stage wear from Jean Paul Gaultier. For me it was the latter that first grabbed my attention. Growing up in de eighties and see...


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