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By Carlotta Rose Busetto, BA Chinese For the first time since its opening in 1852, the V&A is holding an exhibition entirely dedicated to African fashion design until the 16th of April 2023 called ‘Africa Fashion’. It is a wonderful attempt to remove the veil that has concealed
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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 Dior, followed by the origin of the House of Dior and the
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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 from the traditional V&A, with its grand cases of costumes through the
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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 help you escape to the Middle Kingdom from time to time and bring you
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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 interview Dr Hongxing Zhang who works as a Senior Curator at the V&A