Artist Textiles - Picasso to Warhol

I went on a trip to the Fashion and Textile museum in London, as just a new exhibition was launched, which will be on until May 2014. As the title tells, it was about 20th - century art in textiles and fashion from Cubism and Surrealism to Pop Art. I really liked this exhibition as it was very colourful and vibrant. The way artist work are reinterpreted into fabrics is fascinating.

' Fit for a Queen ' In 1946 the long established Lancashire cotton goods manufacturer, Horrockses, set up a fashion subsidairy, manly for the production of printed cotton frocks. The painters Alastair Morton and Graham Sutherland supplied textlie designs for the company. 

Beautiful coloured prints of Andy Warhol on dresses. The patterns are very summery, as illustrations like watermelon slices, ice cream and butterflies. I especially liked the simplicty of how the illustrations were done and how thoughtful the colours were used to not make them look overwhelming.