On at the Met Museum in New York from May 3 2006 – September 4 2006, AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion:
"AngloMania focuses on British fashion from 1976 to 2006, a period of astounding creativity and experimentation. Over the past 30 years, British fashion has been defined by a knowing and self-conscious historicism. In their search for novelty, designers have looked to past styles with an appetite that is as audacious as it is rapacious. Focusing on their postmodern, historicizing tendencies, this exhibition presents a series of tableaux based on Britain’s rich artistic traditions. The irony of satirical prints, the romance of landscape paintings, and the glamour and bravado of grand manner portraits are evoked through a wide spectrum of British designers."
John Lydon has a few interesting things to say about it on his website.
Telegraph: Eclectic, electric – the Brits take Manhattan by storm (with photo gallery of the celeb guests, including Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy and John Lydon)
Western Mail: Americans snub Welsh designers at British fashion show
The Times: Punks and peers fashion an Anglophile evening
Forbes: `AngloMania' Keeps British Humor
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