Vyki and Catherine are back to share their six favourite fashion exhibitions on in London. Fabulous frocks but what does the V&A have to say about Chanel’s war years? Handsome handbags at Gucci Cosmos but is the set design the star of the show? Just how did the Design Museum manage to make a room full of mannequins feel like a real live fashion show? Find out how M&S, David Bowie and Princess Diana all have connections to Jewish fashion designers. Discover how street style and haute couture are influenced by Black British designers and does gold make you beautiful?

Mentioned in this Episode:

· Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto at the V&A

· Gucci Cosmos at 180 Studios

· REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion at the Design Museum

· Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style at the Museum of London Docklands

· The Missing Thread: Untold Stories of Black British Fashion at Somerset House

· The Cult of Beauty at the Wellcome Collection

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MUSEUM MEMBERSHIPS

Episode 6: Museum and Cultural Memberships You Need to Consider

In this episode Vyki and Catherine share their favourite types of cultural memberships for great value for money and additional benefits in London and beyond. Find out how to get instant access to the sold-out Chanel exhibition at the V&A and other perks of the National Museums membership schemes. Discover historic houses, castles and coastlines with the National Trust and the nation’s gems with English Heritage. Get discounted and free entry to galleries across the country with the National Art Pass from Art Fund. Go local with places like Strawberry Hill House. Check out what you can get via work and find out why Catherine can join CSSC. And see whether a ticket already in your wallet can get you free re-entry.

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● V&A membership

● Natural History Museum membership

● Tate Members

● National Trust membership

● English Heritage membership

● Historic Scotland membership

● CADW membership

● Historic Houses Association membership

● National Art Pass (Art Fund pass)

● Strawberry Hill House membership

● CSSC

● National Maritime Museum Cornwall

● Buckingham Palace and all Royal Collection Trust properties

● London Transport Museum annual pass

● The Postal Museum annual ticket

● 180 Studios membership

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Vyki and Catherine are back to share their six favourite exhibitions in London Autumn 2023. Did Frans Hals ever paint a frowning face or Rubens ever depict women with their clothes on? Will you see Marina Abramović’s face too often in her eponymous exhibition at the Royal Academy? Discover glittery fabulous Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire in the City of London and a very different beauty made by El Anatsui from disused bottle tops in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Hear about the lyrical journey Julian Knxx’s films take you on at Barbican Curve and the show we couldn’t wait to open at Kew Gardens.

Mentioned in this Episode:

● Frans Halls at the National Gallery

● Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy

● Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire at the Guildhall Art Gallery

● El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon at Tate Modern

● Rubens & Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery

● Julian Knxx: Chorus in a Rememory of Flight at the Barbican Curve

● Mat Collishaw: Petrichor at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens

● Art Fund membership

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