Heart Home magazine Issue 12 - June 2014 | Page 9

Wedding Dresses 17752014 V&A, London 3 May 2014 – 15 March 2015 Open daily 10:00 – 17:45 and until 22:00 every Friday. The V&A’s spring 2014 exhibition traces the development of the fashionable white wedding dress and its interpretation by leading couturiers and designers, offering a panorama of fashion over the last two centuries. Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 features over 80 of the most romantic, glamorous and extravagant wedding outfits from the V&A’s collection. It includes important new acquisitions as well as loans such as Kate Moss’s spectacular couture wedding dress designed by John Galliano and Jamie Hince’s outfit by Stefano Pilati for Yves Saint Laurent (2011), the embroidered silk coat designed by Anna Valentine and worn by The Duchess of Cornwall for the blessing after her marriage to HRH The Prince of Wales (2005). Embroidered silk satin wedding dress designed by Norman Hartnell, 1933 Worn by Margaret Whigham for her marriage to Charles Sweeny Given and worn by Margaret, Duchess of Argyll © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Travel-inspired, contemporary, home accessories handcrafted by global artisans. www.maudinteriors.com