Dior and Kim Jones have supported the exhibition “Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion” taking place in Charleston, Lewes.
and Fashion,” on the famous cultural collective at the gallery space Charleston Lewes, an hour commute from London. The exhibit was curated by journalist Charlie Porter to coincide with the release of his book “Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion” and runs through Jan. 7.
The two sisters were often permitted two to three hours a day to themselves to write or paint by their half-brother before he would order them to spruce up their appearances and put on their best dresses for his examination. Duckworth would play psychological games by telling Woolf and Bell they didn’t look good and needed to change.
“It’s because they went through this sudden radical change and whereas in our day, if we make a change, we take a photo of it, be it a break up or haircut. Change involves image, but in their days because cameras were so expensive and they had been photographed so much that they’ve moved to this new area and don’t care about it — they just care about the change itself,” Porter explained.
Porter uses images, spoken word and diaries throughout the exhibition to make up for the absence of the clothes.“I love absence, I love the fact that we don’t have to have the clothes to show it because most clothes don’t exist anymore, in a way,” he said. Woolf and the collective were deemed deeply unfashionable after the Second World War, as all eyes focused on New York.
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