Gallery 13 - Fashion - Manchester Art Gallery - Review
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ I enter from the right, coming straight from the staircase, neglecting Lowery and Valette, and continue straight on towards a Harvey Ball style smiley face, stuck on the outside of a cabinet, covering the place at which a mannequin’s head would have been. The mannequin inside wears a yellow dress. Image via fashionexhibitionmaking.ac.uk While the gallery is titled “fashion”, every subdivision concerns ‘Couture’. A seed collection, works of big-name designers, has been transformed into quite a brilliant exhibition. Brilliant, first, in its transparency. The reverse wall, left and behind as I enter, showcases ephemera left over by the exhibition team. A steady progression from mind-maps, through mood-boards, to floor-plans and sketch ups. Both the drive and the focus of the exhibition team is apparent in their workings. Already, colour is used to great effect. Text is highlighted in yellow, signifying the theme of ‘storytelling’. A set of A4...