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Event
- Title:
- Conscious Style - Ethical Fashion Day
- When:
- 09.11.2008 10.30 h - 17.00 h
- Where:
- Victoria and Albert Museum - South Kensington
- Category:
- Exhibitions
Description
Bring your chic but unloved fashion items to swap with ones you will love at our Swishing event. Stylists will help you discover your best look and cut and sew reinvention workshops can help you put life back into your clothes. Chaired by fashion writer and broadcaster Caryn Franklin, experts including Katharine E Hamnett and Lucy Siegle debate the future for sustainable fashion. Watch our glamorous eco fashion show presented by Peter Ingwersen and Orsola de Castro. Join the style surgery seminars to find out whats eco hot on the high street or how to restyle your wardrobe. A day dedicated to your fashion choices and the principles and practicalities of ethical fashion. New V&A Trustee Erin O'Connor will attend the event to support the new Sackler Centre for arts education.
Venue
- Venue:
- Victoria and Albert Museum - Website
- Street:
- Cromwell Road
- Postcode:
- SW7 2RL
- City:
- South Kensington
- Area/Borough:
- London
Description
V&A South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 3000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.
Admission to the V&A is free
Some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge
Phone: +44 (0)20 7942 2000
10.00 to 17.45 daily
10.00 to 22.00 Fridays (selected galleries remain open after 18.00. ).
Closed 24, 25 & 26 December
The tunnel entrance to the V&A is open from 10.00 - 17.30 daily but may be closed, on occasion, on the advice of London Underground.
Five minutes from South Kensington Tube Station. South Kensington is on the Piccadilly, Circle and District Line, five minutes from Victoria, 10 minutes from the West End.
Buses: C1, 14, 74 and 414 stop outside the Cromwell Road entrance. The Open Tour stop outside the Museum as part of their Double Decker Bus site-seeing tour of London
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