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Weird Sensation Feels Good opens at The Design Museum
Weird Sensation Feels Good opens today at The Design Museum in London’s Kensington High St. Subtitled The World of ASMR, this is the UK’s first ever exhibition on ASMR which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Inducing tingles, tranquility, deep calm and euphoria, this is the design story of an evolving internet sensation through a series of audio, visual and tactile works. The first appearance was around 2009 and the ...
The perfect fashion book for Xmas – Vogue Paris 100 years
The perfect fashion book for Xmas teenage fashion fans has just been released – ‘Vogue Paris 100 years’ is a comprehensive look at the chic Parisian magazine with an in depth look at the different contributors and how they created the Vogue Paris style. Now renamed Vogue France by Conde Nast the US owners, Vogue Paris had an independent view of its own from the American publishers and ...
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers opens tomorrow at The Design Museum and I was lucky enough to have a socially distanced sneak peek. Having not visited a museum for four months I was very excited to see this exhibition. It marks the re-opening of The Design Museum and strict protocols are in place. Face masks must be worn and the floor is marked out into 2 ...
Colouring downloads for kids who love fashion
Colouring downloads for kids who love fashion and big kids too from two innovative designers and one fun dance animation to while away the indoors hours of isolation. Little Creative Factory have released a download colouring in version of the characters for their summer collection story book ‘Twisted Tales’ which you can then post on social media with the hashtag #LCFDREAMERS.
Two perfect mini fashionista Christmas gift books
Two perfect mini fashionista Christmas gift books today. First up Terrific Timelines Fashion  just published by Laurence King Publishing Terrific Timelines Fashion. One of the Terrific Timelines series with pop out characters to make a timeline from antiquity to the 20th Century and beyond. This should keep the offspring occupied for hours on a wet winter’s day.
Edward Burne-Jones romanticism at Tate Britain
Romanticism beguiles at the Tate Britain with a show focusing on one of the most eminent Pre Raphaelite painters Edward Burne-Jones. Opening on October the 24th, it has been a long time since such a strong body of his work was presented in an exhibition and cover not only painting but some of his famous stained glass work as well as interior projects such as tapestries and a very ...
Stunning iconic Frida Kahlo show at the V&A Museum
The stunning iconic Frida Kahlo show at the V&A Museum, Frida Kahlo – Making Herself Up opens on June 16th and runs till November 4th 2018. The show has an emphasis on how Frida fashioned her identity against the struggle she had with bad health due to Polio in her childhood and a devastating near fatal bus crash when she was just 18 years old which weakened her ...
Incredible Exhibition Road Quarter new V&A Museum entrance
The incredible Exhibition Road Quarter new V&A Museum entrance was previewed yesterday and opens tomorrow evening with a flourish and a week of special activities labelled the ‘Reveal’ Festival. This beautiful new entrance includes a huge underground excavation which becomes the new Sainsbury Wing and was designed by Amanda Levete Associates with engineering undertaken by Arup Associates. The entrance opens onto ...
Artistic kids photo story from Mertxe Alarcon
Today a beautiful artistic kids photo story from photographer Mertxe Alarcon using the simplest style with just one dress and different still life and filtered photos to create a very pleasing set of photos. Mertxe was a graphic design editor at National Geographic Spain for 8 years after managing the photography from El Mueble magazine, previously he worked in the best laboratories in Barcelona for 15 years. His clients are Spanish ...
Yorkshire school kids model for J.W.Anderson
Yorkshire school kids model the collections featured in the new exhibition and book Disobedient Bodies: J.W.Anderson Curates the Hepworth Wakefield and spotted on Dazed Digital. The shots were taken by Jamie Hawkesworth, and feature 123 pupils from local schools wearing both the designer J.W.Anderson’s  creations and other high fashion garments featured in the exhibition including Issey Miyake and Vivienne Westwood. The exhibition at the Hepworth/Wakefield ...