Just opened is the latest show from the Garden Museum, a creative collaboration between guest curator Amy de la Haye and set designer Simon Costin in which the galleries of the museum and it’s gardens are filled with a profusion of wild and cultivated, natural and artificial roses.
Drawing inspiration from the Garden Museum’s own collection and gardens, the show explores the tensions between both the natural beauty and artifice and the soft petal and the prickles of the rose, all of which are reflected in fashion, image making and craft. Fashions designed by Alexander McQueen and Comme des Garçons are shown alongside undergarments dating from the 18th century and the latest gender-neutral designs by Ashish. Accessories include millinery by Stephen Jones and Philip Treacy; a rose bucket bag by Lulu Guinness and a selection of vintage fans. Painted and botanical portraits and gardeners’ impressions of roses, drawn from the Garden Museum’s archive and special loans, will be shown alongside contemporary images by Nick Knight and Tim Walker. Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose (sponsored by David Austin Roses) will also include rarely seen items from the Garden Museum Collection, including Ellen Willmott’s volume of botanical lithographic illustrations of roses Genus Rosa and photographs of roses taken by horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll. Book your tickets here.
We are thrilled to say that we have a pair of tickets to give away and one catalogue to one lucky reader. Enter your details below by Friday April 1st and we will pick a name out of a hat. Good luck!
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