Visit Zandra Rhodes's Fashion and Textile Museum

Met up with fellow 43Thinger MyCapaciousBottega to check out this museum in Bermondsey. It’s very much a Zandra Rhodes museum rather than a Fashion and Textile Museum – as the exhibition focused solely on Rhodes’s work dating back to the 60s.

The colours are staggering – a neverending spectrum of vivid hues – and her designs draw from sources of inspiration ranging from the theatrical to the ethnic. Some of the dresses (is it the “73/74”??) will be familiar and have certainly been re-visited by later designers.

No menswear, unfortunately, though the fabrics were so good that I nearly acquired a taste for women’s eveningwear.

Horseradish and I linked up at London Bridge today and did it together. It was really kool actually and I was very suprised that there was affordable items to be found in the museum shop. lol

Have decided that I need to get my hands on some of her textile. That is what is truly desirable about her fashion legacy. Which spans 4 decades as opposed to the 40 my idiot brain offered up earlier…

I guess this free’s up a space on my list! Yippee :)

re-opens on the 12th of july. Planning to go with fellow 43, horseradish. Bring it on!

http://www.ftmlondon.org/zrexhibition/