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Juxtaposition

30/3/2017

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I'm not a dedicated follower of fashion, but when I heard that Burberry were promoting their latest collection in collaboration  with the Henry Moore Foundation I was most intrigued to know how that would look...
Burberry have an exhibition space in one of the old Foyle Bookshops in Soho, now called  'Makers House', so we went along to find out one Sunday afternoon in Feb. The queue went down the road, round the corner and back again! Difficult to say from looking at the clientele, who was the pull-had they mostly come to see the fashion or the sculpture or maybe like us they wanted to see how one played against the other? Two very slim fashion conscious japanese guys with poker straight precision cut hair, were ahead of us in their Burberry - it gave me the chance to appreciate the attention to detail in the trench coat one of them wore. He had the collar up to show a contrasting Burberry plaid, set off with a leather strap complete with buckle, non functioning, as far as I could tell, but very smart. This didn't prepare me for what was to come.
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It didn't take too long for us to reach the front of the queue and then the journey of discovery began!
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I was excited to see that Burberry had taken some of Moore's sketches to create some most unusual printed fabrics.
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There was a mezzanine level from which you could look down at the exhibition, and was also filled with images and maquettes made by Henry Moore which gave an insight into his inspiration and his work.
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For more info about Henry Moore follow this link: www.henry-moore.org/
A totally fascinating experience - a little peep into the world of haute couture, but most importantly how one great artist had inspired another.
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    Hello, I'm Ruth Overton. My nickname as a child was 'Ruthie Toots' which is how the name 
    Toots Totes'
    came about!
    I come from a family of artists and artisans and the creative gene has resulted in a desire to make stuff. There's nothing I love more, than to sit at my old treadle  machine, sewing. It was handed down to me, through the family having been bought by my Grandad for Grandma in the 1930's. (See my blogs about the machine here.)
    More recently I have turned my attention to designing and creating bags and 'Toots Totes' began. 
    I'm going to blog about how ideas for bags come about and how things happen in the sewing room, so join me there if you want to, or bypass this to go to the Shop or the gallery, if you prefer - I won't mind!

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