The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of dress in the world, spanning four centuries. Ranging from rare seventeenth-century gowns to cutting-edge contemporary couture, the collection includes dresses, suits, accessories, shoes and hats from all over the world. Available in two formats, this week to view diary offers a unique opportunity to look closely at exquisite, labour-intensive details seen in clothing often too fragile to display.
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V&A Publishing makes beautiful, highly illustrated, innovative and popular books on art and design they sell worldwide, generating profit for the V&A. They publish around 30 books and digital products a year on subjects as diverse as fashion and textiles, design and the decorative arts, theatre, pattern, craft and fine art.
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