Hello my name is Paul Smith

The Design Museum takes you into the world of Paul Smith, celebrating his career in fashion and charting the rise and success of his quintessentially British label, which has become one of the worlds leading fashion brands.  The exhibition is already receiving brilliant reviews, and the opening day saw The Design Museum open the doors to the most visitors they have ever had in a day.

The exhibition showcases his entire career starting at a his first shop, the public can walk around in the recreation of the three metre by three metre shop that opened in Nottingham in 1970.

Inside his first store in Nottingham

Curator Donna Loveday is confident that  it will be as popular as The Design Museum's 2012 Christian Louboutin exhibition, which is the museum's most visited exhibition ever. She believes it will be appealing to a broad audience and has said that even fans who think they know all about the designer "Will hopefully find out something new about him."
Take a unique insight into the life and mind of the designer Paul Smith, The Design Museum have even made a life size recreation of Paul Smith's office, which is crammed full of artwork, music, bikes,books and even curiosities sent to him by fans, including the nativity made from peanuts.

Recreation of his office

You can book tickets for the exhibition on ticketweb.co.uk which are just £8.40 for students, and you can even book late night viewings!

The Glamour of Belville Sassoon

Bellville Sassoon, the high end British fashion house, who famously dressed royals and aristocrats, including Diana, Princess of Wales, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Fashion and Textiles Museum.

Belville Sassoon are a duo made up of David Sassoon and Belinda Bellville, they are considered one of Britains finest couture labels. Clients included Princess Diana, Jackie Kennedy,Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Over 150 dresses will feature in the retrospective, including several loaned by the Duchess of Cornwall and two dresses owned by the late Princess of Wales. The display will also include sketches of dresses made for Diana, with musing and ideas, annotated by the Princess herself.

David Sassoon visited my Uni last year to give a talk on his life and career, and i was lucky enough to be in the audience, I saw lots of photographs of the women he had designed for and the garments he created so I can't wait to go down to the Fashion and Textiles Museum and get to see the dresses right

in front of me.

"Bellville Sassoon reinvented British couture in the second half of the 20th designs wonderfully evoke a world of debutantes, socialites, weddings and royalty," said Celia Joicey, head of the Fashion and Textile Museum.

The exhibition will run from 20th September-11th January, which gives you plenty of time to get yourself down there.