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...The textile department of London’s V&A museum has sent boxes of fabric scraps to turn into paper, which will then go back to its paper-conservation department, which has “a nice circularity”, observes Frith-Powell...
...For her, as for Jones, it’s the stories and sense of social history that make an archive truly relevant. Taylor agrees. “It’s not a quick way to make money.”...
...This is where they have benefited from their various source collections: the museum’s department of Dutch History; the Royal Dutch Society of Engineers; the collection of the Amsterdam lawyer LJ Hartkamp...
...My first Biba item I remember well, a brown double-breasted fitted jacket with raised shoulders. The stallholder told me the history of Biba and I was intrigued....
...Given that this is also the first exhibition dedicated to US fashion at the V&A, the owner of London’s premier costume archive, the content is a little surprising. ”They represent a variety of voices that...
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