Exhibition Review :-)

Review of V&A Exhibitions

Abbie Bower

We headed to the Victoria and Albert museum in London to visit the Hollywood Costume and Ball gown exhibitions.  

The first exhibition that we went to was the Hollywood Costumes. It brought together over 100 of the most iconic movie costumes from across a century of film-making. It gave us an opportunity to see the clothes worn by unforgettable and beloved characters such as Dorothy Gale, Indiana Jones, Jack Sparrow and Darth Vader. I liked this exhibition because from the simplest of costumes to the more extravagant ones, it consisted of a variety of colours, patterns and materials that they were made from. Although there were many costumes that I recognised from recent films like Superman and Harry Potter, there were also a few that I didn’t know about so this was interesting to find out about the older costumes that the exhibition had.

After viewing the Hollywood costumes we went to the Ball gown exhibition.  The dresses that were on show were elegant and iconic. Some had really nice embroidery parts on them that were very intricate and looked carefully sewn. The variety of dresses were all different lengths, colours and shapes, which made them look unique. There were dresses in this exhibition made by a variety of designers including Alexander McQueen, Erdem and Stella McCartney.

Overall I really liked the two exhibitions that we visited at the Victoria and Albert museum. Also, each dress had its own information plaque listing the name, designer and also what the inspiration was for that particular design. This was good because it helped us get an idea of why a designer chose to create what they did.