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The V&A’s fashion exhibition for summer 2013, Club to
Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s, will explore the creative explosion of London fashion
in the 1980s. It will look at how the impact of underground club culture was felt
far beyond the club doors, reinventing fashion worldwide. More than 85 outfits
by designers such as John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hamnett will
be on display together with accessories by designers including Stephen
Jones and Patrick Cox. The ground floor gallery will focus on the young fashion
designers who found themselves on the world stage for creating bold, exciting
looks. The mezzanine gallery will concentrate on club wear, grouping garments by
tribes such as Fetish, Goth, Rave, High Camp and New Romantics. This includes
clothes of the type worn by Boy George and Adam Ant, as well as more extreme designs
worn by Leigh Bowery. The Catwalk To provide a snapshot of the most fashionable
and creative designers working in London in the 1980s, the exhibition shows a
display of Blitz denim jackets. In 1986, Blitz magazine commissioned a group of
22 London-based designers to customise denim jackets provided by Levi Strauss
& Co. The jackets were exhibited at the V&A and auctioned in aid of the
Prince’s Trust on 10 July 1986. Further cases will display garments by influential 1980s
designers, with a substantial amount of menswear designs by Jasper Conran,
Paul Smith, Workers for Freedom and Willy Brown who dressed Duran Duran. Textile design played an important part of 1980s fashion,
with designers such as Betty Jackson working with design collectives like The
Cloth, helping to create the archetypal early 80s silhouette of loose shirts
and bold prints. Wendy Dagworthy utilized Liberty prints while English
Eccentrics and Timney Fowler made print fashionable. There will also be
sections dedicated to the energetic, bright clothes of Chrissie Walsh, Georgina Godley, Bodymap and John Galliano. In the early 1980s
Katherine Hamnett pioneered the vogue for stylish, casual clothing made in
oversize crumpled cottons and silks. Her designs were often based on
utilitarian boiler suits and army fatigues. She conceived a series of T-shirts emblazoned with slogans, using fashion as the platform for
her Green politics. Hamnett caused a sensation by wearing her T-shirt
with the slogan '58% Don't Want Pershing' to meet the Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher in 1984. Bodymap, founded in 1982 by Stevie Stewart and David Holah,
produced an exhilarating blend of form-fitting knits, layered stretch
Lycra jersey and rhythmic print. As one fashion editorial noted, their inspiration had
‘sprung from the streets, sharpened in the clubs’. The designers gained further
momentum through their.  by V&A | |
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