Alicia Ault Museums Correspondent Long before the advent of social media and before there was a television in every home, Americans learned about the world in the pages of magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Look and the Saturday Evening Post. Photographs were a focal point in those mid-20th-century publications, informing […]
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Performance fabrics continue to push fashion boundaries
Lengthy since evolving from its out of doors-only roots, the general performance cloth category continues to innovate and marry shade, texture and layout with the capability to stand up to the every day wear and tear of life. The class in the U.S is nonetheless a little sector of materials […]
‘She broke boundaries’: how textile artist Althea McNish made Britain bloom | Art
The Trinidad-born British designer and artist Althea McNish’s bold textile prints rescued 1950s Britain from postwar gloom, ushering in the upbeat 60s with outsize flowers in a humid palette. Her early work with forward-thinking fabric producers such as Liberty, Ascher Ltd and Hull Traders brought Caribbean heat into British living […]