Power in Pattern: Africa Fashion Is Packed With Pretty Patterns From Across The Continent
From the contrasting style of Lagos-based designer Lisa Folawiyo to Doreen Mashika’s traditional Tanzanian fare, Victoria & Albert Museum’s Africa
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Cars: Accelerating the Modern World review – revolutions behind the wheel
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The V&A’s finely tuned exhibition tracing the history of the automobile attempts to balance the car’s wide-ranging cultural impact with the environmental costs of its gas-guzzling success
Winnie-the-Pooh heads to V&A for big winter exhibition
Victoria and Albert museum to stage first big show about Winnie-the-Pooh, targeting families with young children
V&A acquires world’s largest collection of paper peepshows
Treasure trove of more than 360 tunnel books gifted to museum by collectors Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner
Brief encounters: Undressed at the V&A
From Queen Victoria’s mother’s pantaloons to Kim Kardashian’s ‘butt-lifters’ – an exhibition about the history of underwear explores the beautiful and bizarre inventions beneath our clothes
From baroque to bling: how France became king of high style
In early modern Europe, as political power shifted, one country became a leader in luxury. Now the V&A’s new galleries reveal how, through conflict and colonialism, France gained its artistic supremacy