"Hartnell to Amies: Couture By Royal Appointment" celebrates the timeless elegance of London couture and explores how the Queen’s patronage of ground-breaking British designers helped to establish London as an international fashion centre after the Second World War.

The Fashion and Textile Museum
83, Bermondsey Street
SE1 3XF London

Costume designers are storytellers, historians, social commentators and anthropologists. Movies are about people, and costume design plays a pivotal role in bringing these people to life.

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL London

Tim Walker is one of the most visually exciting and influential fashion photographers working today. Extravagant in scale and ambition and instantly recognisable for their eye-opening originality, Walker’s photographs dazzle with life, colour and humour. His recent work is drawn from the pages of the world’s leading magazines: British, French, American and Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, W and The New Yorker among many others.

Somerset House
South Building
Strand
WC2R 1LA London

Bringing together almost 200 objects from around the world, celebrqting the work of contemporary jewellers who have challenged the conventions of jewellery design.

Design Museum
Shad Thames
SE1 2YD London

This major new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Valentino will showcase over 130 exquisite haute couture designs worn by icons such as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren and Gwyneth Paltrow in an exciting installation.

Somerset House
South Building
Strand
WC2R 1LA London