Horrockses Fashions at the Fashion and Textile Museum
Zandra Rhodes' delightful museum celebrates the rise and rise of the groundbreaking British label…
Fri 9th July 2010, 11:00am – Sun 24th October 2010, 06:00pm
The Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3XF
Category: Fashion
This summer, the Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates two decades of Horrockses - the much celebrated ready-to-wear label which dazzled well-to-do women of the glorious 1940s and 1950s.
The label originated in Preston, North Lancs, and despite it's ready-to-wear nature, maintained an air of sophistication and style through quality and innovation, even worn by Her Madge.
The exhibition promises to be a visual feast, with colourful prints galore and elegant and cutting-edge cuts, charting the label's rise through evening dresses, playful summer frocks, housecoats and beachwear, with a unique insight into the design process and leading (at the time) manufacturing processes.
The exhibition runs until October, but what a fabulous way to spend a summer's day frolicking around the FTM, coveting these universally groundbreaking fashions!
For more information, visit the FTM website.
Closed Monday and Tuesdays.
