London's Fashion Stories

How Jewish designers from Carnaby Street and London’s West End defined fashion for music icons like The Beatles and Rolling Stones during the Swinging 60s.

From Dot Cotton’s Alexon coat to Mr Fish’s maxi-smoking dress, here’s a peek into the Museum of London’s Fashion City exhibition.

London’s East End has long been a centre for the manufacture of clothing and textiles. This story is representative of the many British-Bangladeshis who made London their home, with beginnings in the rag trade.

Not just hand-me downs… each strand threads a story with it. We showcase five lovely stories from our collection.

A satirical handkerchief in the museum’s collection highlights both an interesting phase of British politics in the 1880s, as well as a quirky, male fashion statement.

Welcome to London's Fashion Alphabet. Join us for a series of bite-sized videos where we go behind the scenes to explore our huge fashion archive, all the way from A to Z.

Moss Bros, one of the longest-surviving Jewish-founded firms in London fashion, has achieved longevity by embracing change, and staying ahead of the shifts and turns of fashion production and consumption. We trace the history of this iconic London firm.

Women's winter fashion once featured a curious and old-fashioned cylindrical handwarmer: the muff. Fashion curator Beatrice Behlen examines the history and design of these odd accessories, as represented in the museum's collection.

Four traditional Chinese cheongsams tell the story of a family’s journey across China, India, Yemen and finally to London.

In the first instalment of a series on London style, we delve into the wardrobes of the fashionable woman of the 1920s, and explore the clothes and accessories a well-to-do female Londoner would have slipped into for a night out in the capital.

In this edition of our fashion series, we delve into female fashions of the 1930s with the help of a former Vogue fashion editor to explore what made the new decade’s silhouette so different and appealing.

Fashion curator Beatrice Behlen explores the beautiful and striking eveningwear of the 1930s, as seen through fashion photography.

Our 2018 Collecting for London display included a wedding dress, made in the 1930s. This unassuming vintage dress holds a fascinating story: that of the five women who wore it to get married, in the austere London of the Great Depression and the Second World War.

As a German-born gay Jewish man, Otto Lucas found himself away from his homeland and stranded in London in the 1930s. Nonetheless, he established himself as a world-renowned milliner, and his legacy lives on through the pieces we have in our collection.

The museum’s collections hold a wide variety of headwear, dating from the 16th century to the present day. Here, we take a close look at four very different hats and the cap-tivating stories of the people who wore them.