🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | the UK’s first ever exhibition on the most fashionable queen in history — Marie Antoinette — will open at the V&A in 2025

Join us on Sunday, September 29th, at 16:00 BST for our next At Home event organized in collaboration with the ACORSO Tailoring for Women Group! Tickets and information available on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/acorso-tailo…

💛 Hello yellow 👋 Today's #OnlineArtExchange is yellow to mark 80 years since the painting 'Pauline in the Yellow Dress' was first acquired The Harris 🧑‍🎨 Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964) © estate of the artist. 📷 The Harris

Big fans of The Harris's Pauline here, so... here is Panchita Zorolla by William Strang for Art UK #OnlineArtExchange. HBD, P! 🎂 Yellow dress? - tick! Seated portrait? - tick! Knowing expression? - tick! Collection of Manchester Art Gallery 👇 artuk.org/discover/artwo…

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is Yellow to celebrate 80 years of The Harris’s Pauline in The Yellow Dress. We have chosen The Yellow Dress by Laura Knight. The painting shows the costume-making studio at The RSC capturing colour and artistry with thick brushstrokes.

🟡 In celebration of 80 years of The Harris’s ‘Pauline in The Yellow Dress’ by Herbert James Gunn, this week’s @ArtUKDotOrg #OnlineArtExchange is #yellow Like Gunn, Sir John Lavery was a renowned portraitist. His ‘Eileen in Primrose Yellow’ is one fine example.

Purple is the colour opposite of yellow, so reposting Kate's fabulous example of Poiret's purple sequins. Sad to think how he struggled in his later years. #yellowdress #ArtUK

British poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell was born #OnThisDay in 1887. She was photographed by American fashion photographer George Platt Lynes in 1950, posing as Lady Macbeth, wearing this damask patterned velvet tunic dress. Sold by Dreweatts 1759. #fashionhistory #dress

'V&A celebrates a century of national theatre archive with tribute to avid collector' theguardian.com/stage/article/… via Guardian Stage

Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli was born #OnThisDay in 1890. She designed this sky blue wool evening jacket with butterfly buttons for her summer 1937 collection. The garment was photographed by Horst for Vogue in the same year. MAD Paris collection. #FashionHistory

#FashionFortnight Have you seen our exhibition #PlayingByTheRules yet? With plenty of activities you can join in the fun, or enjoy a nostalgic look back at childhoods past. Why not share your own pictures and memories of childhood with us, using #NTKillerton? 📸 Simon Tutty

We would like to announce our wonderful professor Ross Parry who launched the Museum Data Service (MDS) today. This transformative service aims to connect and share tens of millions of object records across ALL 1750 accredited UK museums. A big congratulations Ross Parry ! 👏📚

Big news – today the Museum Data Service launches 🎉 The MDS will bring together over 100 million object records from UK museums and collections 👉 artuk.org/discover/stori… A collaboration with Art UK Collections Trust University of Leicester, funded Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts and Humanities Research Council

👖 NOW OPEN 👖 Our new free display, Tomorrow’s Wardrobe by #FutureObservatory, is now open. Tomorrow's Wardrobe explores urgent research and innovation taking place to design a future for fashion that is both stylish and sustainable, with works on display by designers

Also...sustainablefashionweek.uk/sfw-2024

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Brownie uniform (1976) Artist: Gerald Witcomb

A reminder of an exciting event coming up at the end of September Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/godde…

I'm collecting tulip bulbs together to start planting out soon, as gardens quieten down over the next few months this well-known cape by Worth is a reminder of the stunning colours of Spring to come

Engaged in a bit of homework, looking into some Iliffe (pronounced eye-liff as in Billie Eilish) forebears I came across this blog about Basildon Park and a fashion exhibition I'd missed back in 2019. Anyone see it. Gorgeous portrait of Lady Iliffe 📷 NT thebeyonder.co.uk/2019/08/24/ber…