Wedding dresses- Victoria Albert

For my final blog post I visited the wedding dresses 1715-2014 exhibition at the V&A. The concept of seeing two centuries of glamorous wedding dresses from royal gowns worn by the Duchess of Cornwall to celebrity dresses worn by the likes of Gwen Stefani and supermodel Kate Moss’, was extraordinary. Exquisite workmanship was on display as designers were exposed, some for the first time, and all were perfectly preserved.

As well as presenting the dresses themselves there are panels of text telling the story of the evolution of the bridal gown. It taught me about when white became the colour of wedding dresses. The exhibition is displayed across two floors chronologically, cream and white was the dominant colour scheme, starting with the oldest dresses and then showing the latest fifty years on the top level overlooking the museum allowing you to view how weddings have evolved.

Many medias were involved such as films and photographs capturing the brides themselves in the dresses. Some even include the outfits worn by the grooms and bridesmaids. The exhibition itself took five years to curate and it shows. No gaps are left unfilled and all details you may be curios of is given. It is such an extensive collection that you could spend all day there as it traces the development of the fashionable wedding dresses created by inventive designers such as john Galliano, Christian Lacroix, Vivienne Westwood and Vera Wang. It is a truly superb must-see collection which gives an intimate insight into the circumstances of the dresses.