I visited the Design Museum, London to see the exhibition 'Drawing Fashion', a lovely little museum right next to Tower Bridge. I was very excited for this exhibition, purely focused on Fashion Illustration AND curated by Colin McDowell, certainly worth a trip down from the north. I enjoyed the exhibition as the stark modern layout wheeled you through the decades, and particularly enjoyed the focus on the 50/60/70's with Antonio Lopez. Yet overall felt the exhibition was a little flat, in particular the era from 2000 - 2010, an era where fashion illustration has been resurrected and revisited with a bang, of mixed media, experimentation, naivety, and fun. However, this exhibition chose to focus on only a few illustrators all with rather block, solid styles, where were the works of Kime Buzzelli, Elisabeth Arkhipoff and Kate Gibb?
Despite my discontentment at the end of the exhibition, it is worth seeing and the Design Museum is a charming little museum.