Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! and other exhibitions....

London is an amazing city, for its fashion scene obviously but also for creativity, cultural diversity that make all our industry this great adventure.

There is a few exhibition launching this month that will make you fall in love again with the cold, the smelly old pubs and the busy brunch on the week-end.

Here is our selection, go see one or two or all of them.. that sounds like inspiration to me !

1. Isabella Blow at Somerset House

Curated by Alistair O’Neill with Shonagh Marshall and designed by award-winning architectural firm Carmody Groarke, with installations by celebrated set designer Shona Heath, the exhibition will display thematically the breadth of Isabella’s collection, a life lived through clothes. 

Somerset House, in partnership with the Isabella Blow Foundation and Central Saint Martins, 

is proud to present Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!, a major fashion exhibition 

celebrating the extraordinary life and wardrobe of the late British patron of fashion and art.

20 November 2013 – 2 March 2014

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2. Hello My name is Paul Smith at the Design Museum

From the 15th November 2013 to 9th March 2014, London's Design Museum invites you into the world of fashion designer Paul Smith, a world of creation, inspiration, collaboration, wit and beauty. Looking to the future as well as celebrating his career to date, the exhibition will reference Paul Smith's influences and fashion designs, charting the rise of one of the world's leading fashion brands.

3. Exhibitions on Film: Bill Cunningham New York at Somerset House

Photographer Bill Cunningham has built a fifty-year career from shooting street-based portraits in New York. His eye is for fashion; his subjects range between high-profile glitterati and everyday trendsetters. Given his instinct for not just glamour but uniqueness of style, it was perhaps inevitable that he would come to photograph Isabella Blow in 1999.

4.Club to Catwalk London Fashion In the 80's at the V&A
Ah the 80's, this one has our heart!!

For a little bit more we follow their blog which is full of behind the scene explanation and a mine of inside from the 80's.

5. Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr at the science Museum

This exhibition shows work by two photographers fascinated by the eccentricities of English social customs.

6. The Glamour of Bellville Sassoon at Fashion and Textile Museum

The Fashion and Textile Museum, founded by 'princess of punk' Zandra Rhodes, is honouring the British couture label Bellville Sassoon. The women who wore Bellville Sasson, from Elizabeth Taylor to Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn, oozed celebrity and glamour, and this exhibit aims to focus on the clients of courture as well as the fashion itself. Highlights of the exhibition include sketches of gowns made for Princess Di with her inputs scrolled along the side. See snippets of British high fashion from the 50s with founder Belinda Bellville through to when David Sassoon and then Lorcan Mullany took over the design helm. It's bound to be an extravagent affair filled with little known tid-bits.