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Arts feature

This V&A show, about fashion’s fascination with the natural world, will seduce and appal

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

One of the prettiest pieces in the V&A exhibition Fashioned from Nature is a man’s cream waistcoat, silk and linen, produced in France before the revolution, in the days when men could give women a run for their money in flamboyant dress. It’s embroidered with macaque monkeys of quite extraordinary verisimilitude, with fruit trees sprouting all the way up the buttons.

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