Fashioned from Nature- V& A museum london
This is the first UK exhibition to explore the complex relationship between fashion and nature from 1600 to the present day.
Standing on display at the top of the stairs is the dress worn by Emma Watson to the Met Gala. The dress stands amongst terrariums. “In collaboration with Calvin Klein, every part of the gown was produced with sustainability in mind - from the use of Newlife (a yarn made from post-consumer plastic bottles) to the zippers fashioned from recycled materials,” Watson explains in the foreword of the book that accompanies the exhibition.”The threads of this dress were woven in a reinvented tale of our consumption. We even designed different layers to that separate components could be worn again in different ways. I am proud of this dress.”
Vivien Westwood’s designs are a platform for her environmental activism. She recruits prominent figures to pose in her ‘Save the Arctic’ T-shirts and gives placards to the models in her catwalk shows. Westwood engages here fashion audience in concern for the planet. She urges consumers to ‘buy less, choose well, make it last’.
