Since I've started Uni my lectures always hammer in our heads to visit galleries and exhibitions at every possible moment. So today me and a few of my friends went to the Victoria & Albert Museum to see the Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear.
The exhibition opened in April 2016 and finishes March of this year. The exhibition explored the intimate relationship between underwear and fashion and its role in moulding the body to a fashionable ideal, with cut, fit, fabric and decoration revealing issues of gender, sex and morality.
Underwear is everything to me so this exhibition was a complete and utter dream, discovering fascinating and sometimes controversial stories of underwear design from the 18th century to this present day as well as everything else in between.
I'm going to share with you some of the photographs I managed to capture as well as images from the Victoria & Albert website:
Underwear has also influenced outerwear. Nightwear has morphed into loungewear and garments such as corsets, crinolines and slips have been recast by fashion designers to challenge convention and explore the dynamic relationship between body and clothing.
Garments were displayed alongside advertising materials, fashion plates, photographs and film to bring new insights into the most personal garments in our wardrobe.
The exhibition opened in April 2016 and finishes March of this year. The exhibition explored the intimate relationship between underwear and fashion and its role in moulding the body to a fashionable ideal, with cut, fit, fabric and decoration revealing issues of gender, sex and morality.
Underwear is everything to me so this exhibition was a complete and utter dream, discovering fascinating and sometimes controversial stories of underwear design from the 18th century to this present day as well as everything else in between.
I'm going to share with you some of the photographs I managed to capture as well as images from the Victoria & Albert website:
Underwear has also influenced outerwear. Nightwear has morphed into loungewear and garments such as corsets, crinolines and slips have been recast by fashion designers to challenge convention and explore the dynamic relationship between body and clothing.
Garments were displayed alongside advertising materials, fashion plates, photographs and film to bring new insights into the most personal garments in our wardrobe.
The 'babydoll' slip designed by Carine Gilson displayed in the exhibition was my favourite garment, the lingerie is made in her atelier in Brussels from silk sourced in Lyons and Chantilly lace made in Calais. It was such a beautiful piece!
Brandi Kristine
Photo Credit: Myself, V&A
Underwear is everything nowadays there is everything for every one from shapes, sizes , colour to fabric everything to make women and men feel sexy ��
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