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Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes

Mounting Queen Victoria’s mourning dress

How do you display a fragile costume that’s over 100 years old?

Art & Design
Art & Design

Wenceslaus Hollar’s etchings of fashion & fire

A 17th-century recorder of women’s clothes and London's skyline

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

The Cheapside Hoard

A jaw-dropping stash of lost Tudor and Stuart jewels

Collections
Collections

Mapping London’s LGBTQ+ history in our collection

We look through our collection for symbols of the long struggle by LGBTQ+ Londoners for equal rights

From our experts
From our experts

How Moss Bros transformed with London’s fashion industry

Moss Bros is one of the longest-surviving Jewish-founded firms in London fashion

From our experts
From our experts

Why fashion manufacturing moved away from London

From the 1940s onwards, here’s why many London-based fashion makers struggled to retain their base in the capital

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

How Mary Quant revolutionised 1960s fashion

This champion of super short hemlines influenced how a generation dressed

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Inside the Big Biba department store

Open for just two years, the 1970s flagship shop for this fashion label was a shopper’s paradise

Royalty & Aristocracy
Royalty & Aristocracy

Princess Diana: A London look

The 'people’s princess' was a 20th-century celebrity whose image was tightly linked to her hometown

From our experts
From our experts

These boots were made for Romans

What can we learn about the residents of Roman Londinium by studying their shoes?

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Princess Margaret's iconic Dior Cinderella dress

How a fabulous ballgown helped turn a British princess into a fashion icon

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Hardy Amies: London’s great tailor & couturier

The Savile Row-based designer had a long career spanning luxurious couture and casual menswear

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Who are the pearly kings & queens?

Since the late 1800s, pearlies have donned their button-covered regalia to raise money for charity

Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style

Jewels of the Cheapside Hoard

An emerald watch, a salamander brooch and a cornelian squirrel

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

Teddy boys: Britain’s first youth subculture

Sporting long jackets and quiffs, the Teds were born in London

Music & Subculture
Music & Subculture

Meet the mods, a sharply dressed London subculture

Photographs from a stylish, scooter-riding 1960s scene

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Music icons, Soho fashion streets & the Swinging 60s

Here’s how music and fashion were intrinsically linked in 1960s London

Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes

Conserving Anna Pavlova’s ‘Dying Swan’ costume

From treating a real feather skirt to conserving silk tulle, here are details of the conservation work