London’s Fashion and Textile Museum is currently hosting a retrospective exhibition spotlighting one of the leading fashion teams of the Sixties - Foale and Tuffin.
After studying together at the Royal College of Art, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin set up their partnership with just 200 pounds in their pockets, but their boutique in Marlborough [...]
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This small exhibition is currently taking place just upstairs from ‘Beatles To Bowie’ at London’s National Portrait Gallery and is a review of images of Twiggy to celebrate her 60th birthday.
It starts with the iconic photograph which propelled her to stardom, when, at the age of 16, a magazine editor sent her to have her [...]
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By Valerie Potter |
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Tagged A Life In Photographs, Annie Leibowitz, Barry Lategan, Beatles To Bowie, Brian Aris, Bryan Adams, Daily Express, David Bowie, Deirdre McSharry, Face of '66, House of Leonard, Marks & Spencer, Mary McCartney, National Portrait Gallery, Pin Ups, Twiggy, Vogue
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Barbara Hulanicki was one of the people who changed the face of high street fashion in the Sixties. With her business partner and husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon (known simply as ‘Fitz’), she established the legendary Biba, selling trendy, affordable clothes via mail order and her shops in Kensington. The business eventually moved into the former [...]
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By Valerie Potter |
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Tagged Barbara Hulanicki, Beyond Biba, Biba, Derry & Toms, Fitz, Gate cinema, Kensington High Street, Louis Price, Stephen Fitz-Simon, V&A Museum
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London’s National Portrait Gallery is celebrating the 50th anniversary since the start of the Sixties with ‘Beatles To Bowie: The 60s Exposed’, an exhibition of 150 photographs of the personalities and groups who made the Sixties swing.
The exhibition, which runs from 15th October 2009 to 24th January 2010 and features over 100 images that [...]
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By Valerie Potter |
Can also be found in Celebrities, Events, Lifestyle, Music |
Tagged Angus McBean, Beatles, Cecil Beaton, David Bailey, David Bowie, Don McCullin, Gered Mankowitz, Jimi Hendrix, Laing Art Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Newcastle, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Philip Townsend, Rolling Stones, Terry O'Neill, Twiggy
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