Flashy blockbuster fashion exhibitions are always a treat, but often it's the quieter, more profound looks at the industry and its role in the wider world that stay with you. Fashion City, How Jewish Londoners shaped global style, at the Museum of London extended its run, but it’s closing on the 7th July. Do go before it closes, also to note, on 23rd June curator Lucie Whitmore is hosting an exclusive talk about the milliner Otto Lucas, whose designs frequently graced the cover of Vogue.
The exhibition is a wonderfully evocative, faithful telling of the story of how fashion making, craft and business is woven acutely into our city and often by the hands of those who came here to seek freedom and a better life. More than that, for any Londoner it’s a riveting immersion in a side of the city that I’m sure resonates with many, that of the immigrant story, the adoption of a new home and struggle to create a thriving existence for your family within it. It shines a light on everyone from the often forgotten makers to the starriest names dressing Princess Diana and David Bowie, as well as everything in between.
