Fabric of India

International Touring Exhibitions Autumn 2015 The Fabric of India V&A International This project is the most wide-ranging and visually exciting exhibition of South Asian textiles ever mounted. Exploring the extraordinary skills of local textile makers and how Touring Exhibitions their creations were used in palaces, villages and places of worship, this exhibition includes many of the finest pieces made for local markets and foreign export from the 3rd to Autumn 2015 the 21st century. Drawn from the V&A’s own world-class collection and including important loans, the objects range from fashion and contemporary artists’ textiles to three- This autumn, the V&A touring exhibitions dimensional furnishings such as tents and bed-hangings. programme ranges from Indian textiles to the design of tomorrow via 1960s counterculture and Size: Approx 900 m2 Italian style. The latest addition to our programme Available from 2016 is Ocean Liners, an exhibition about the great, glamorous age of sea travel.

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Undressed: A Brief Quilts Jameel Prize 4

History of Underwear This stunning exhibition brings together The Jameel Prize, awarded for the fourth the best of the V&A’s historic collection time in 2016, is an initiative exploring Featuring highlights from the V&A’s of quilts and bed hangings, evaluating the cultural dialogue between Islamic outstanding fashion collection, this them as complex objects. Often ignored, artistic tradition and contemporary exhibition explores underwear’s many sometimes disparaged, quilts and practice. The V&A inaugurated it in 2009 roles, from the most practical to the patchwork bed covers construct meaning in partnership with Abdul Latif Jameel voluptuous, from the 18th century to the from memories. They signify an act Community Initiatives. It is intended to Image Credits: present day. It examines the intimate of remembrance or a rite of passage, inspire a new generation of designers Cover: Abstract ikat sari by Jiyo!, Andhra Future Design: Google, Project Loon, Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings relationship between underclothes and documenting lifecycle events such as love and makers from all backgrounds Pradesh, India, 2011. 2011-ongoing. from the V&A: Pen and ink drawing fashion and notions of the ideal body, and marriage, birth and death. Personal whose work has been influenced by Introduction: Poster for Canadian Pacific Disobedient Objects: Protest placard, Russia, attributed to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, and the ways in which designers have and collective histories embedded in traditional Islamic art, craft and design. Railway by J. R. Tooby, 1920s. 2012. The Netherlands, 17th century. referenced underwear to challenge or quilting are explored alongside patterns, The shortlisted artists are invited to show Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945: Gianfranco Revolutions: Records and Rebels 1966-70: Inspiration by Design: Word and Image from comment on contemporary attitudes to materials and techniques, trade and their works in the Jameel Prize exhibition, the National Art Library at the V&A: Octave Ferré advert, photograph by Gianpaolo John Lennon by , 1967. gender, sex and morality. The displays also production. which tours internationally after the prize Barbieri, 1991. Uzanne, L’art dans la décoration extérieure des Ocean Liners: Marseille, Porte de l’Afrique du address the importance of innovation announcement. Vivien Leigh: Public Faces, Private Lives: Vivien Nord, poster by Roger Broders, 1920-32. livres, cover by Louis Rhead, 1898. to the development of the underwear Size: Approx 200 m2 Leigh in her dressing room, Hollywood, ca. Game Plan: 500 Years of Board Games: Ivory Opera City: Print depicting the Mozart family industry and the superb craftsmanship Available from 2016 Size: Approx 400 m2 1960. chess set, Rajasthan, India, mid-19th century. by Louis de Carmontelle, 1764. of the finest lingerie. Men’s and women’s Available from 2016 Fashion and Nature: Feathered hat by John Rebel Video Games: No Man’s Sky, Hello The Fabric of India: Woman’s head-cover, Galliano for Christian Dior, 2006-2007. Games, forthcoming. Rajasthan, India, 19th century. clothes are shown alongside prints, Horst: Photographer of Style: Mainbocher Plywood: Chair by Alvar Aalto, Finland, Undressed: Silk dressing gown, France, 1930s. advertisements and a wide range of Corset, photograph by Horst P. Horst, 1939. 1932-33. Quilts: A military quilt by Francis Brayley, contextual images. Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the The Work of England: Luxury Embroideries of 1864-77. Philosophy of Total Design: Sydney Opera the Middle Ages: Embroidered cope, England, Jameel 4: IshqHaqiqi-IshqMajazi by Rasheed Size: Approx 500-600 m2 House, Arup with Jørn Utzon, 1958-1973. ca. 1310-1340. Araeen, ca. 2014. Available from Spring 2017

Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945 Engineering the World: Ove Arup

This is the first major exhibition to examine Italy’s rich and the Philosophy of Total Design contribution to modern fashion from the end of the Second World War to today, exploring the fashion and design which Ove Arup is the most influential engineer of the 20th century turned ‘Made in Italy’ into the mark of style. The exhibition and the pioneer of a multidisciplinary design approach. This features nearly 100 ensembles, from the V&A’s collections exhibition celebrates the art and science of engineering and and on loan. It explores themes such as the post-war birth of reveals the untold design stories behind iconic projects developed Italian fashion, Hollywood and celebrity, fine tailoring, and the by or in collaboration with Arup, such as the Sydney Opera cult following of Italian designers of today. Fashion houses House and the Centre Pompidou. A mixture of original objects, featured include Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Emilio Pucci, experiential projects, rich visuals and interactive elements is Dolce & Gabbana and Prada, as well as the new generation of underpinned by Arup’s own words. Historical and contemporary fashion talent. materials explore how his design ideals continue to be relevant in the context of the big urban challenges: material scarcity, Size: Approx 900 m2 sustainability, mobility, urban growth and safety. Available from 2016 Size: Approx 300-400 m2 Available from 2016

Vivien Leigh: Public Fashion and Nature Horst: Photographer Future Design Disobedient Objects Revolutions: Records

Faces, Private Lives This exhibition explores designers’ of Style This major exhibition celebrates the This is an exhibition about out-designing and Rebels 1966-1970 fascination with nature through the power of design in shaping the world of authority and the way politically active Celebrating the Vivien Leigh Archive, prism of fashion. It examines issues A revered figure in the world of fashion tomorrow. Displays include large scale objects can change the world. Many of This exhibition explores the cultural recently acquired by the V&A, this such as ethics and sustainability in the image-making, Horst P. Horst (1906-99) spacecraft and micro urban interventions, today’s rights and liberties were won upheaval of the late 1960s and the exhibition offers a glimpse into the industry. The natural world is seen to be charted sixty years of style, from dresses the latest developments in technology by disobedience, and certain objects freedom and opportunity expressed private life of the UK’s first international a rich source of inspiration for fashion. of the 1930s to interiors of the 1980s. alongside social revolutionary systems, have played a crucial role in grassroots through music, art, fashion, graphics, film star and one of the most celebrated The exhibition focuses on themes such He created images of rarefied glamour, and medical instruments next to struggles for social change. Since the TV, film, photography, performance, actors of the 20th century. Married to as ethical production, campaigns for working with leading publications speculative designs. It crosses disciplines 1980s creative forms of trouble-making and literature. Viewed from the 21st actor Laurence Olivier from 1940 to 1960, the protection of the natural world, such as Vogue and House and Garden. and contexts of production to show have multiplied in response to new century perspective, the experience is an Leigh co-starred in plays and films. The recycling and the development of He is credited with the promotion of a non-hierarchical territory of future technologies and political challenges. immersive odyssey through some of the couple were greeted on their various sustainable design. The story is told the fashion , and worked closely thinking and practice. The exhibition From Suffragette teapots to protest greatest era-defining moments, from the tours with the enthusiasm generally through drawings and photographs, with some of the greatest, including themes are stitched together with a drones, this exhibition showcases activist Beatles to Jimi Hendrix, from Swinging reserved for visiting royalty. Vivien Leigh: scientific equipment, fashion sketches Lisa Fonssagrives and Helen Bennett playful and cutting-edge audio guide. objects that are both politically effective London to Woodstock. The visitor is taken Public Faces, Private Lives reveals never- and textile designs, garments, in the 1930s, Carmen and Visitors are empowered to take action and aesthetically powerful. They tell a on a journey across the globe, seeing before-seen material, including the most accessories and ornaments inspired in the 1940s and 50s, and Veruschka a and change the course of their own story of people refusing to be passive the changes that were taking place in personal letters, diaries, photographs, by natural materials. decade later. The exhibition explores history, be it by signing a political petition subjects, taking history into their own people’s minds and on the streets. The costume sketches and annotated scripts. the processes behind some of his most or taking part in a space travel convention. hands in order to remake the world. exhibition considers whether these 2 Size: Approx 500-600 m famous images and his fascinating and This exhibition places the project of the “revolutions” shape the way we live now Size: Approx 200-300 m2 Available from 2018 rarely exhibited experimental work, future in the hands of each one of us, Size: Approx 400 m2 and the way we think about tomorrow. Available from 2015 including unusual travel photography showing a range of pathways towards Available from 2016 and Surrealist still-lifes. a hopeful tomorrow. Size: Approx 1000 m2 Available from 2017 Size: Approx 400 m2 Size: Approx 1000 m2 Available from 2016 Available from 2017 Ocean Liners The Work of England: Luxury

The great age of ocean travel has long since passed, yet ocean Embroideries of the Middle Ages liners remain one of the most powerful and glamorous symbols of 20th century modernity. No form of transport was During the Middle Ages, England acquired an unparalleled so romantic or so contested. Ocean liner design was a matter international reputation for the quality of its precious of national prestige and an arena for global competition. This embroidered textiles which were eagerly sought by Emperors, exhibition is the first to focus on all aspects of the design Kings and Popes. Few survive. The V&A’s collection of these of these ‘floating palaces’, their opulent interiors, innovative masterworks is the largest and most important in the world. engineering and the travel experience itself, showing how Exploring the makers, their trade, the buyers and patrons, and designers responded to new markets and changes in the social, the techniques used to produce these textiles, this exhibition political, and economic fabric. The visitor experiences this tells the story of how 14th century English embroidery rose to story through rich displays of ship models, drawings, posters, pre-eminence in Europe. interiors, fashion, film and oral history. Size: Approx 300 m2 Size: Approx 1000 m2 Available from 2017 Available from 2018

Game Plan: 500 Years Rebel Videogames Plywood Master Strokes: Dutch Inspiration by Design: Opera City of Board Games There is a rebellion happening in This exhibition explores the many and Flemish Drawings Word and Image This significant new survey presents a videogames. A new wave of designers, ways plywood, a versatile, cheap and vivid history of opera, from its origins This exhibition presents some of the creators and critics are pushing back accessible material, has been utilised both from the V&A from the National Art in late-Renaissance Italy to the present most iconic games from the national against the clichés that have long seen historically and in more recent times. day. It is structured through the sounds collection of board games held by the medium cast aside as shallow Plywood is ubiquitous and its history This exhibition presents some of the Library at the V&A and contexts of seven opening nights, the V&A Museum of Childhood. The entertainment. Rebel Videogames is a is little known. It has been used since most important works from the V&A’s evoking the excitement and the anxiety The National Art Library at the V&A is exhibition spans 500 years, from the celebration of this uprising: a playfully ancient times but its presence is not outstanding collection of Dutch and of the premiere of a new work on the an encyclopaedic resource for designers origins of game playing in the Middle interactive exhibition that explores always obvious. The exhibition considers Flemish drawings, one of the principle stage. Objects, costumes and fine art of the future, originally conceived as East and the educational games of the stories, design work and political the role of plywood in boats, aircraft and holdings in Britain. This is the first time this works construct a cultural landscape part of an educational project to reform the 18th and 19th centuries, to modern movements that define this creative military applications, in architecture and little-known collection is touring. Drawn of Europe. Focusing on Venice, London, British arts and manufacture following classics such as Monopoly and Scrabble development. This is the first exhibition furniture design, in digital forms of design from artistic production spanning 500 Vienna, , Milan, Dresden and St. the Great Exhibition of 1851. This is the and the digital games of today. Board to fully consider the complexity and manufacture and as a green building years, masterpieces by Jan Brueghel the Petersburg, the powerful and universal first exhibition ever mounted on the games have a universal appeal and can of videogames as one of the most material. Plywood has been an important Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Anthony van narratives of love, war, music, money, National Art Library and its influence. transcend the barriers of culture and important design fields of our time, medium of experimentation for Dyck and Rembrandt van Rijn are shown patriotism and tragedy grip the visitor. Featuring treasures from the library’s language. Game Plan invites the whole leaving visitors with a newfound awe modernist designers, and the exhibition alongside striking works by lesser-known The exhibition unravels a series of collection, it explores the role of the family to explore the histories and and respect for their artistry. features key works by Alvar Aalto, Charles figures. Featuring designs for tapestries extraordinary events and characters, book in art and design. It positions the stories of the less well-known games of and Ray Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright. and stained glass, portraits, landscapes and reflecting moments of historic change book as an educational tool and an the past and popular family favourites. Size: Approx 900 m2 topographical panoramas, the exhibition and revolution. object of aesthetic beauty, focusing on Available from 2018 Size: Approx 400 m2 marks the publication of a definitive design training, illustration, photography, Size: Approx 300 m2 Available from 2018 catalogue which illustrates every work in Size: Approx 1000 m2 graphic design, fashion and artists’ Available from 2018 the V&A’s collection and explores recent Available from 2018 discoveries and re-attributions. publications.

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