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Mumbai to get first textile museum

To document, archive and represent Mumbai’s textile legacy, the Indian megalopolis by the Arabian Sea, home to 20 million people, give or take a few, is all set to get its first textile museum. More than eight years after the initial proposal, the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation), Mumbai's governing civic body, will start with...

Fashion

Fashion styles of '40s and '50s

Best known for its full-skirted dresses that were sought after by women everywhere and were even worn by Queen Elizabeth II, Horrockses Fashions was the manufacturer of one of the most respected ready-to-wear labels of the 1940s and 1950s. From 9th July – 24th October 2010 the Fashion and Textile Museum will showcase Horrockses Fashions – off...