The first trip from my fashion course was a trip to Durham to the Bowes Fashion Gallery. The major fashion exhibition shows the work of the amazing catwalk photographer Chris Moore.
Moore has captioned legendary fashion shows including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Dior, Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Yves Saint Laurent. A favourite piece of mine was seeing Versace’s Marilyn Monroe Dress from his Spring/ summer 1991 collection. The dress was originally shown on the catwalk on model Naomi Campbell, the dress was a straight fitted dress with a bright print of Marilyn’s face all over and then a very detailed beading around the chest and I fell in love with it.
I had never been to a fashion exhibition before and never seen such detail and art in clothing. All my favourite designers had famous pieces shown in the gallery but was shocked to see there was a no picture rule on certain garments. When I looked around the gallery more I did notice people had brought a pad and pencil to actually sketch the designs which I will remember for next time.
Another dress I did manage to see was an Alexander McQueen’s from the collection “Hells Angels and Prolific Demons” Autumn/winter 2010. It is a beautiful gold dress which he had based on angels wings and had a large gold feather collar which carried on all the way to the hips. The garment was incredible to see and the detail was inspiring. 
Here are some more of my favourite garments from the Bowes Fashion Gallery
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