Ceramics masterclass with Sally Tuffin

Wednesday 21st January 2010, 10am - 4pm

Sally Tuffin started using her creative skills outside the fashion arena in 1985 and has since been designing ceramics for internationally renowned Dennis Chinaworks.

This is a unique opportunity to join Sally Tuffin and her team of decorators, and under their expert guidance decorate your own spill vase, which will then get fired in the kilns at Dennis Chinaworks and the finished product sent to you within two weeks.

Gift purchases are available for workshops at FTM - why not treat a special someone?

Cost: £125 including materials exhibition to our exhibition Foale and Tuffin: Made in England

To book: Call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

Limited spaces - advance booking essential

For further info and queries, visit us on the web at www.ftmlondon.org
or email info@ftmlondon.org

Tonight - Start your Christmas Shopping with a 10% Discount!

Don't miss the exclusive late night shopping event at the Fashion and Textile Museum this evening. With an exciting array of young design talent, glossy books, crafts and a wide selection of 'gift-shop goodies' available with a 10% discount, this is a perfect opportunity to get stuck in to your Christmas shopping.

The Shop@FTM will be open from 6pm-9pm this evening Friday 4th December 2009 and includes a complimentary glass of wine.

Also at the Fashion and Textile Museum this evening, Iain Webb, authour of 'Foale and Tuffin - The Sixties, A Decade in Fashion' will be giving a talk exploring his journey into the world of Foale and Tuffin and why the timing is so right for such a book. Webb will be signing copies of his work which is available for sale in the Shop@FTM.

'In Conversation with Iain R. Webb' is held at the Fashion and Textile Museum from 6:30pm - 8pm this evening, Friday 4th December 2009 and costs £12 (£9 Concessions) including a glass of wine.

Twist Baby Twist - a psychedelic evening of laughter and fun!

The much anticipated night ‘Twist Baby Twist’ was a riotous success last Friday at the Fashion and Textile Museum. A celebration of the psychedelic sixties, ‘Twist Baby Twist’ was inspired by its location - the acclaimed exhibition ‘Foale and Tuffin – Made in England’, which charts the phenomenal impact Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin had upon London fashion in the 1960’s and their part in the youthquake movement.

First stop was the hair and make-up team, who transformed twenty-first century girls and boys into sixties icons. Next, a rail of vintage clothes and accessories formed the perfect sixties dressing up box. A quick pout in the ‘David Bailey Photo Booth’ and the night was ready to get underway.

With daisy chains adorning every head, hosts The Supreme Sisters belting out such classics as ‘Stop! In the Name of Love’ and live music from Bebe & Paulo, Remi Nicole and Theoretical Girl and The Equations, ‘Twist Baby Twist’ was a fun filled evening of grooving on down!

A lively catwalk presentation from Pop Boutique Fashion Shows was the cherry on top of an evening of laughter and fun. Be sure to check out the fantastic Foale and Tuffin Exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum to have some sixties nostalgia of your own.

‘The Foale and Tuffin – Made in England’ exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum is open to the public now until the 24^th February 2010. For further information please visit http://www.ftmlondon.org/

Filed by Rebecca Kingsland, FTM Blog Editor

In Conversation with Iain R. Webb

Friday 4th December 2009, 6.30 - 8pm

Renowned fashion journalist and lecturer Iain R Webb will be in conversation about the timeliness of this new book Foale & Tuffin, The Sixties: A Decade in Fashion.

He will explore the journey he went on in putting the book together, conversations with Foale and Tuffin's many friends and collaborators and why the timing was so right for such a book. He will also be signing copies of his book which will be on sale in Shop@FTM.

Cost: £12 (£9 concessions) including exhibition entrance and a glass of wine. Attendees wishing to view the exhibition should arrive early.

To book call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

The FTM will also be holding a late night Christmas shopping evening this night featuring mince pies and a special 10% discount on merchandise by up and coming designers in Shop@FTM - an excellent opportunity to pick up some early Christmas presents!

Get your tickets now for Twist Baby Twist!

Don't delay - get your tickets now for the hotly anticipated Twist Baby Twist - an evening of 1960's entertainment at the Fashion and Textile Museum this Friday.

With dancing, live music, film, fashion shows, dressing up boxes, the David Bailey photo booth, 1960s make overs, and DJs, this show will give you something to twist and shout about!

Tickets cost £15 and are expected to sell quickly for this much-anticipated, one-off evening – the price includes the entertainment and entry to the exhibition. Tickets can be purchased from www.wegottickets.com

Foale and Tuffin: Unzipped

Your chance to hear the duo in person

Friday 20th November 6:30pm - 8pm

This is your chance to hear from the duo themselves - what inspired them then and what inspires them today to be so creative and dynamic? This is your opportunity to get close to two legends of the sixties when Marion and Sally talk about thier work and the creation of the exhibition.

Cost: £12 (£9 conc.) including a glass of wine and entrance to Foale and Tuffin: Made in England. Attendees wishing to view the exhibition should arrive early.

To book call 020 7407 8664 or book online from We Got Tickets

Advance Booking Recommended

For further info and queries, visit us on the web at http://www.ftmlondon.org/ or email info@ftmlondon.org  

An Evening Out at FTM

On Friday 4th December the Fashion and Textile Museum will be hosting a special late night Christmas Shopping event at the ever popular Shop@FTM, with a 10% discount for one night only! Come and enjoy a glass of wine and get a head start on your gifts before the Christmas rush.

Also that same evening will be an inspiring talk from the author of 'Foale and Tuffin. The Sixties. A Decade in Fashion' Iain R Webb, make sure you head down to the FTM for this fabulous evening!

Late night Christmas shopping – Shop@FTM

Friday 4th December / 6 - 9pm
Including a glass of wine.

After the popularity of its late night shopping evening last year, why not join us to get an early start on finding those perfect Christmas gifts with a special 10% discount in the Shop@FTM?

In conversation with Iain R Webb
Friday 4th December / 6.30 - 8pm
£12 / £9 concessions / including a glass of wine.

Renowned fashion journalist and lecturer Iain R Webb will be in conversation about the timeliness of his new book Foale and Tuffin. The Sixties. A decade in fashion. He will explore the journey he went on in putting this book together, conversations with Foale and Tuffin’s many friends and collaborators and why the timing was so right for such a book. He will also be signing copies of his book which is for sale in the Shop@FTM

TWIST BABY TWIST - Two Unmissable Nights at the Fashion and Textile Museum!

TWIST BABY TWIST

Foale and Tuffin – Made In England

Fashion and Textile Museum

Friday 27th November 2009

19.30 – 22.30

FTM are staging an exciting evening of unmissable Swinging Sixties entertainment!

‘Twist Baby Twist’ will offer you a snapshot of flower power fun set against the museum’s fantastic new exhibition on iconic British fashion designers Foale and Tuffin who were at the heart of the cultural explosion in London in the sixties.

Let's celebrate how the sixties shaped and defined our music, fashion and art world of today.

Dancing, live music, film, fashion shows, dressing up boxes, the David Bailey photo booth, 1960s make overs, and DJs will make this show something to twist and shout about!

Tickets cost £15 and are expected to sell quickly for this much-anticipated, one-off evening – the price includes the entertainment and entry to the exhibition. Tickets can be purchased from http://www.wegottickets.com/

Today – ‘Foale and Tuffin – Made in England’ is open!

Last night saw a fantastic crowd at the Fashion and Textile Museum for the official opening of the FTM’s newest exhibition ‘Foale and Tuffin – Made in England’.

With the spirit of the swinging 60s in the air, guests were thrilled to see the exhibition officially opened by Sir Paul Smith who, with lighthearted prompts from Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, recounted his awe as a young man from Nottingham, meeting the two talented designers for the first time at their boutique in Marlborough Court where his “girlfriend from London” Pauline, now his wife, was then working. “[Foale and Tuffin] were such pioneers. It was so revolutionary what they were doing” praised Smith.

There was much admiration for the inspired layout of the new exhibition, which recreates both the Foale and Tuffin boutique and their original workroom, right down to their original rolls of fabric. On the ground floor, a signature red and blue Foale and Tuffin sign illuminates the way for rails of fun and flirty dresses in bright pop colours, whilst upstairs old workbenches boast swatches, buttons, sketches and magazine cards charting their success.

To the right on the top floor, we are brought back to the present day with Marion Foale’s stunning, on-trend hand knitted garments, hats and scarves and Sally Tuffin’s striking hand thrown vases. Guests were thrilled to find many of these items also available to purchase in the popular Shop@FTM which did a roaring trade all evening.

Today, Friday 23rd October, the exhibition opens to the public – head down and get inspired!


all images courtesy of Kirstin Sinclair
filed by Rebecca Kingsland, blog editor

Opening Next Week - 'Foale and Tuffin - Made in England'

Foale and Tuffin – Made in England

New retrospective exhibition of Sixties design duo at the FTM -

23^rd October 2009 until 24^th February 2010

From October 2009 the Fashion and Textile Museum is staging a retrospective exhibition of Foale and Tuffin – two influential designers who were at the heart of the cultural explosion in London in the Sixties.

Many things have been written about fashion in London in the Sixties but one of the most overlooked stories it that of Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, part of London’s ‘Youthquake’.

The Foale and Tuffin label was what cool girls wore – colourful, pop-inspired mini-dresses and trend-setting trouser suits were just some of the key pieces that were ahead of their time in developing popular, desirable fashion.

After meeting at Walthamstow Art School in 1955 and then studying together at the Royal College of Art, they embarked on a lifelong friendship and a trailblazing career. Their boutique off Carnaby Street was at the epicentre of the new fashion scene and these two friends reigned supreme as the queens of cool, wearable fashion from 1962 until 1972.

Foale and Tuffin – Made in England will present a vibrant and inspiring representation of two key British fashion designers of the 1960s and the part they played in creating the changing London scene. It will revisit the Sixties vibe by recreating their boutique, showroom and design studio and chart the very personal story of two women who set up on their own with just a lot of courage and £200 pounds in their pockets!

Surrounded by a throng of creative friends throughout their career Foale and Tuffin successfully tapped into the mood of the moment and were at the forefront of ideas – it is easy to forget that once it was unusual for women to wear trousers but the trouser suit became one of their key pieces and changed the way women dress forever.

Their talent and success is modestly summed up by Sally Tuffin  - ‘We made our own clothes and we realised that there was a gap. So it was very much that people would make their own clothes, people would dress themselves and style themselves with bits and pieces, and that was what was happening then and we just sort of jumped in and made the bits and pieces for them’.

Both are still great friends and very much involved in the design world – Marion Foale has a successful knitwear business and Sally Tuffin’s pottery is sought after by collectors around the world.