** ** 140 years of style

this weekend I took a trip to the

Fashion & Textiles Museum

to see the Liberty in Fashion exhibition

"I was determined not to follow existing fashion

but to create new ones"

Arthur Lazenby Liberty

sumptuous fabrics

oriental influences

generous cuts

sweet detail

collaboration

sketchbooks

Liberty has lasted by moving with changing trends

but keeping it's unique identity

a nostalgic trip through the eras of designs 

we recognise and love

the exhibition runs until February 2016

▎▎ the other side of the tracks

alongside the train tracks

near the street where my Ma once worked

is a little food market

on Maltby Street

small businesses under the arches

share their space on a Saturday

with artisan bakers

chocolate makers

a reclamation yard turned into a gin palace

I'm sure Lady Diana would have been proud

that her wedding glass was filled with

a delicious Negroni cocktail!

not too many mind!

we have to go onward to the

Fashion & Textiles Museum

a collection of colour in fabric

food still a theme here

these two delicious prints by Marcel Vertes

radishes good enough to wear

floral soft tones by Chagall

abstract map like forms by Donald Hamilton Fraser

dancing shapes by Alexander Calder

and riotous acrobats by John Rombola

tasty!