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Lolita fashion emerged in Japan during the 1990s as a radical form of street style born out of the Japanese taste for Hello Kitty cuteness. Although the term 'Lolita' has sexual connotations in ...

A meeting point, resting place and home to a changing display of outdoor installations, the John Madejski Garden is known to many as the heart of the V&A. In its early days, a wide expanse of garden ...

Tom Smith, an enterprising baker in London's East End, invented the Christmas cracker over 150 years ago. Our collections contain some of the earliest examples of this popular paper novelty. The ...

Ebrahim Golestan (1922–2023) is widely regarded as one of Iran’s most significant filmmakers and a pioneer of the movement ...

The film guides us through history, beginning at 1,000 BC, and taking into account Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Victorian era, the jazz age, the importance of pearls in Chinese and ...

The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence is supported by the Huo Family Foundation, The Al Thani Collection Foundation and the Blavatnik Family Foundation ...

Today, the pencil, pen, watercolour and oil sketches produced by John Constable (1776 – 1837) in the open air are valued for their freshness and vitality. However, at the time when Constable was ...