Category: Exploring Exhibitions
Exploring Exhibitions delves into fashion exhibitions, giving thoughtful reviews that unpack the garments on display, curatorial storytelling, and staging.
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No One Does It Like Sargent: The Chronicler of Gilded Age Style
As the turn-of-the-century’s best-known portraitist, John Singer Sargent captured many of the era’s most prolific sitters, including aristocrats, industrialists, politicians, artists, and performers, who all formed part of his remarkable clientele. Yet Sargent was, and understood himself to be, far more than a painter of elegant likenesses. In many ways, he operated as an artistic Read more
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Queen Alexandra’s Coronation Dress and Its Enduring Legacy
The coronation gown of Queen Alexandra, displayed in all its shimmering splendour at The Edwardians: Age of Elegance exhibition at The King’s Gallery, strikes you the moment you stand before it: Bathed in sombre serenity and markedly different from both the coronation gowns that preceded it and those that followed. When Alexandra was crowned beside Read more
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Why I’m Disappointed in the Kensington Palace Exhibition “Dress Codes: Decoding the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection”
When Kensington Palace announced its latest exhibition, Dress Codes: Decoding the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, I was genuinely excited. With a fashion archive said to include over 10,000 pieces spanning five centuries of court life, and the palace itself as a backdrop, there was so much potential to create something truly immersive, educational, and moving. Read more