V&A celebrates 150 th anniversary

The V&A launched its 150th anniversary of its opening in South Kensington with a decadent cocktail party on Tuesday. As the world's leading museum of art and design, the V&A promotes knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the designed world, and it inspires creativity. To reflect this and to mark the occasion, the museum invited 150 leading designers, architects, photographers, fashion designers and artists to contribute a page to an anniversary album.

Fashion designers such as Christian Lacroix, Eley Kishimoto and Ben de Lisi are amongst the designers who contributed unique words and images what they find most inspiring about the V&A and its collections. Limited edition prints and canvases and be purchased from the museum website.

The V&A has been an ardent promoter celebrating the art and significance of fashion in our times. Its Fashion in Motion series, launched in 1999 with Alexander McQueen, showcases live catwalk events presented at the V&A. Featuring some of the greatest designers of our time, Fashion in Motion brings catwalk couture to a wider audience by modeling it against the beautiful backdrop of the museum.