WOOLF ARTS ARCHIVE

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion
Charlie Porter
Exhibition
2023
Charleston in Lewes, United Kingdom
The exhibition Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion and its accompanying book by Charlie Porter explore the Bloomsbury Group's influence on fashion, highlighting their shift from Victorian norms to bohemian freedom. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s casual invitations, the exhibit showcases items like shell necklaces, Duncan Grant’s sketches, and a silk dress from Lady Ottoline Morrell. It also delves into how Bloomsbury’s radical ideas on feminism and sexuality are still referenced in contemporary fashion by designers like Erdem and Rei Kawakubo. The show emphasizes the group's innovative thinking as much as their sartorial choices.



