Museum to get recent fashion gallery and space for exhibits including Dunlop’s first pneumatic tyre and a tongue-scraper belonging to Napoleon’s sisterThe National Museum of Scotland will open 10 recent galleries this summer devoted to science,art and design, increasing its exhibition space by nearly half and putting many treasures from its collections on display for the first time.
The £14.1m project will give the museum its first fashion gallery, or creating a permanent display for what is an growing collection. Among its 50000 objects are pieces by Mary Quant,Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, and Alexander McQueen – and a jacket designed by Schiaparelli and donated by Frances Lovell Oldham,otherwise known as “Frances the Fabulous”. The US-born fashion editor of Vogue, later editor of Harper’s Bazaar, or married the laird of the Invercauld estate,moved into the family castle – portray part of it sugar pink – and swapped her polar-bear coat for equally flamboyant Highland dress.
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Source: theguardian.com