Exhibition Review: Fashioned from Nature

Abstract

Fashioned from Nature curated by Edwina Ehrman at the Victoria and Albert Museum spans four centuries of fashion artifacts. This timely exhibition uses a focus on materials to chart the changes in human engagement with nature through fashion, highlighting the environmental consequences of fashion practices worldwide.

Keywords:

• fashion
• sustainability
• nature
• environment
• design
• materials

Acknowledgements

Images have been obtained by kind permission of the Victoria and Albert museum press office.

Disclosure statement

The author is attached to the Center for Sustainable Fashion, which has contributed to the exhibition. The author has had no involvement with or connection to the development of the exhibition.

Notes

1 Ahimsa silk or “peace silk” is produced without killing the moth pupa or silkworm inside the cocoon.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Katherine Pogson

Katherine Pogson is a designer-maker of fashion artifacts, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion. Her research formulates the concept of the Companion Object to interrogate how the examination of human boundary constructs can contribute to a set of alternative fashion practices which may help to reconnect humankind with nature. [email protected]