Isabella Blow: A Fashionable Life


  The latest fashion exhibition to feature at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, or Powerhouse Museum as we have all grown up knowing it, is an intimate celebration of the late fashion great, Isabella Blow. Isabella Blow: A Fashionable Life presents a smaller curated selection of the 500 pieces purchased by Daphne Guiness after Blow’s passing. Guiness couldn’t bear the thought of her close friend’s clothes being auctioned off and split up so she purchased the collection in full. ‘It’s the story of a life lived in these clothes’ said Guiness of the exhibition at a talk held… Continue Reading

A journey through 200 Years of Australian Fashion


From skilfully knitted jumpers starring cockatoos, to custom capes made from possum fur: this is Australian fashion through the ages. The National Gallery of Victoria’s 200 Years of Australian Fashion exhibition involves more than 120 works from over 90 Australian fashion designers. Presented throughout four large gallery rooms at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, it is the first retrospective of Australian fashion to be undertaken on home ground. The exhibition highlights the significant impact of geography on design and function of Australian garments, both in terms of Australia’s isolation from the rest of the world, and the country’s diverse… Continue Reading