Tuesday, March 3, 2020

England 2020: Day 2 (London)


 Obligatory tube station escalator shot...this is Hyde Park Corners station (delightfully uncrowded!).

 Hair goals! (At the V&A...)



 Even the bathrooms are cool at the V&A!


 The V&A is probably my favorite museum in the world...I could spend days wandering around. This is the historical fashion exhibition.



Gorgeous handmade buttons on a man's waistcoat.


 A cape!

 Elsa Schiaperelli.
 And then the Mary Quant show...absolutely fab! She was such a groundbreaking designer and so important to the English fashion industry in the 1960s.



 Mary Quant learned to sew using Butterick patterns, and then she designed for Butterick once she was a successful designer...and I have sold these very same patterns in my Etsy shop!


 Dennis Severs' House in Spitalfields, East London. An experience...read about it here.



And Blixen, one of the best meals we had on our trip.

1 comment:

Robin Hardy said...

When are you going to sew a Mary Q dress?