With London Fashion Week upon us, many of us may be looking to next season and the future of beauty and fashion, but none of it can happen without a nostalgic nod to what’s gone before. Put next season’s trends in context with a trip to these exhibitions which show how beauty looks and fashion...
The runway is forever flooded with fashion references to by-gone eras, iconic looks and key pieces that have been brought up to date with a fresh take. We’ve taken three key catwalk looks and married them with the exhibitions you need to see this summer, to put your own stamp on the styles you’ll be...
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
-Maya Angelou
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Beauty without expression is boring."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
- Audrey Hepburn
"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."
- Audrey Hepburn
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
- Albert Camus
"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
- Sophia Loren
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
- Virginia Woolf
"Exuberance is beauty."
- William Blake
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
- William Blake
"I am a thing of beauty."
- Frank Sinatra
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
- Emily Dickinson
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
- John Keats
"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
- Virginia Woolf
"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."
- Joan Rivers
"To love beauty is to see light."
-Victor Hugo
"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."
- Paulo Coelho
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
- Edmund Burke
"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."
- Charles Baudelaire