2. Kaffe Fassett: Living in Colour
If you’ve never been to the Bermondsey museum founded by Zandra Rhodes and devoted to fashion and textiles, this is a good opportunity. Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour, which launched last week and runs there until June, is a retrospective exhibition spanning this influential textile artist’s 50-year career.
Fassett has been described as “one of the world’s greatest living textile artists” and he was a key trend-setter in the 1960s and 70s, collaborating for many years with the Vogue-loved fashion designer, Bill Gibb, as well as working for the Italian fashion house Missoni.
It’s the first exhibition of Fassett’s work since a hugely popular 1988 one-man show at the V&A, which went on to tour nine countries. Featuring more than 100 designs, the show includes lavishly-coloured nine-foot-wide knitted shawls, as well as intricately woven coats and throws, painting, patchwork fabrics, quilts and needlepoint. The Fashion and Textile Museum is now run by Newham College, which aims for it to inspire a new generation of creatives.
The show runs until 29 June 2013, at the Fashion and Textile Museum, 83 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 T: 020 7407 8664 | E: info@ftmlondon.org
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