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JOSEF FRANK Meet the Museum team

Meet the Museum team on Friday 27 January at a lunchtime preview of the exhibition celebrating Josef Frank and Svenskt Tenn interior design. See the new exhibition JOSEF FRANK Patterns–Furniture–Painting before it opens to the public. Join Maria Wiberg, Josef Frank Exhibition Curator, Millesgården Stockholm, Celia Joicey, Head of the Fashion and Textile Museum, Beth Ojari, Exhibition Designer and Dennis Nothdruft, Curator at the Fashion and Textile Museum for behind-the scenes insights into the making of the Josef Frank exhibition and the work involved to bring it from Stockholm to London. Book Online Images © Svenskt Tenn

LAST CHANCE TO SEE 1920s Jazz Age Fashion & Photographs Sunday Jazz Dancing workshop

Sunday 8 January 2017 / 2.30–4.30pmPut on your dancing shoes and work out this Christmas at our popular talk and workshop exploring key 1920s dance moves. Hear how the Charleston dance craze swept across the United States in the 1920s in the introductory talk, then learn to shimmy, and shake to the hot jazz of the day.This afternoon workshop for adults is an opportunity to learn classic 1920s dance moves such as the Charleston, the Bees Knees and the Scarecrow, along with afternoon refreshments at the Fashion and Textile Museum. more

Free* | Debutantes and the London Season

Wednesday 11 January / 2.30pmEnjoy an afternoon of Jazz Age beauty, glamour and fashion as we present a roll call of the 1920s debutantes perfectly preserved by the Mary Evans Picture Library.Until the middle of the last century, London’s social calendar was dominated by ‘the Season’, a round of social events and parties during which generations of privileged young women made their ‘debuts’. Luci Gosling uncovers a world now lost from the preparations and formalities of presenting debutantes at court to an exhausting whirl of parties. more

Late Night | Last chance to see JAZZ AGE exhibition

Thursday 12 January / 6–8pmLet’s get this party started and beat the January blues by celebrating the final Museum Late for the 1920s Jazz Age Fashion & Photographs exhibition. So get dolled up and put on your finest footwear to practice the Charleston as we say goodbye to the Roaring Twenties in style.For the last night the Fashion and Textile Museum prohibition bar will be open throughout the evening and London’s Revival Retro Boutique will be modelling their contemporary Gatsby-themed dresses with a salon style fashion show. more

1920s JAZZ AGE Fashion & Photographs | Exhibition ends 15 January 2017 Book tickets online