Sixties Fashion

Exhibition Sixties Fashion
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK)
6 June 2006 to 25 February 2007
The 1960s were a time of sweeping changes in society, politics and culture. Britain began to prosper again, and the young enjoyed a new freedom. As Time magazine famously explained to its American readers, London has burst into bloom. It swings; it is the scene.
Fashion, together with pop music, became Britain’s most spectacular export. Like music, it flouted the rules of propriety and gender. It plundered the past, invented the future and travelled the world to find new ways of dressing.
Photo: Photograph by Ronald Traeger, 1966 (detail) Vogue The Conde Nast Publications Ltd
