Delirious: The Golden Age of Couture, London

As if staging a thoroughly competent exhibition of New York talent from Cloak to Zac Posen wasn't enough, in addition to their stellar permanent exhibition of period pieces and vintage couture, London's Victoria and Albert Museum will be staging a little exhibition from September entitled The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947- 1957. What could it possibly be about, we collectively pondered.

Taking its cue from Dior's famous quote (coinciding somewhat conspicuously with the launch of New Look. Hmm...), the hotly anticipated exhibition will spare no quarter in bringing what should be jaw-dropping pieces from Hartnell, Balmain, Givenchy, Balenciaga and of course, Dior himself. The exhibition runs until January 2008. You can count on us to be nosing around on press
day, yes? Watch this space.

- David

Delirious: 02. 07. 2007

02. 07. 07

Remember those Disneyland adverts? Where the annoying little punk kid keeps waking his parents up because he's too excited? Well that was the same case here at Delirious where some punk kid called Natalie kept prodding me in the back because some hobo John Gallo or ..what? What was he called? Oh, GALLIANO said he would be displaying some painstakingly crafted couture gowns in some town called Versailles in their town hall. Or something.

Doesn't Shalom look pretty?

S/S was pretty spectacular by any measure and expectations are high. With hair and makeup reported to be an arse-numbing 8 hours, the models booked several months in advance and the palace of Versailles ground zero for the event, this has got "legendary" written all over it.

- David