THE Design
Museum has received a donation of over 400 fashion items by one
of the museum's trustees, Jill Ritblat. The collection - which is the museum's
first ever fashion acquisition - features pieces by Chanel,
Givenchy
and Vivienne Westwood.
A selection of the
pieces have gone on show today as part of the museum's new permanent collection
exhibition, Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things. More items
will go on display when the museum moves from Shad Thames to the former
Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, opening in 2015.
The pieces donated
through the Art Fund and were all part of the personal wardrobe of Lady
Ritblat, a barrister and philanthropist. She previously gifted fashion items to
the Victoria and Albert Museum, some of
which were displayed in the exhibition One Woman's Wardrobe from 1998 to 1999.
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