V&A

V&A African Fashion Exhbition

12th December 202212th December 2022
Culture

Through a diverse presentation of pieces from African household names and photography, the exhibition attempts to release African fashion from the constraints of colonialism and racist assumptions, thus allowing individual stories to dominate instead.

Dior Exhibition: Deification of a Luxury Fashion Brand

14th March 201914th March 2019
Culture

Hyunkyung Lee, BA International Studies The Dior Exhibition at London’s V&A Museum is the largest Dior exhibition to hit the UK. Titled “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams”, it begins with the personal history of Christian… Read More »Dior Exhibition: Deification of a Luxury Fashion Brand

Disobedient Objects: The V&A

4th February 20154th February 2015
Culture, Features

Jenny Williams, BA Social Anthropology It is hardly what you would deem subversive. The nature of the display reflects the norm of a modern art museum in a major city, perhaps not what you might expect… Read More »Disobedient Objects: The V&A

Chinese London: A look beyond China Town

26th September 2014
Features, London

Carolynn Look, BA Chinese and Development Studies Chinese students, and even those SOASians who have spent a year in Beijing, often come back feeling deprived of a variety of joys. This issue’s column aims to… Read More »Chinese London: A look beyond China Town

Interview with an Alum: Hongxing Zhang

25th March 201428th December 2016
Features, London

The SOAS alumni column seeks to track down what the alumni are doing after they graduated from SOAS and tries to elicit crucial advice on how to survive in the “real world”. This issue we… Read More »Interview with an Alum: Hongxing Zhang