News
Win a copy of The Crown: Season Two in time for Christmas!
December 13, 2018
An opportunity for members to own the box set of this series
‘Fashion, Femininity and Power’ Study Day at Killerton
November 22, 2018
Victoria Haddock and Beth Graham review the Costume Society's Autumn Study Day ‘Fashion, Femininity and Power’ held at the National Trust's Killerton House on Saturday 15th September.
Exhibition Review - Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
October 30, 2018
Eanna Morrison Barrs takes a retrospective look at the ‘Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier’ exhibition which closed this month at the Design Museum, set to tour from 2019.
Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up
October 21, 2018
Ambassador Vicky Haddock discusses a recent visit to see the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the V&A, open until 18th November 2018.
Fashion Exhibitions in Stockholm 2018-2019
October 6, 2018
Eanna Morrison Barrs rounds up Stockholm’s impressive array of fashion exhibitions coming up in the year ahead.
A Step in Time: The Story of Irish Dance
September 23, 2018
Valerie Wilson looks at Irish dance costume and how it has evolved over the last 125 years.
Patterns of Fashion Study Day News and Reviews
September 4, 2018
Ambassador reviews from the CS Body and Soul Study Day held at London College of Fashion of 7th July 2018.
Power of the Pouf: Women’s Hairstyles as Social Power
August 27, 2018
Beth Graham shares her research into the 1770s hairstyle used as a form of self expression, presentation of allegiance and means of social and political activism.
Fashion History Podcast Picks
August 21, 2018
CS Ambassador Jade Bailey-Dowling shares her pick of the top fashion history podcasts.
For Sale: four book set of Janet Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion
July 23, 2018
Offered for sale in aid of The Costume Society