C20 Vintage Fashion
30-04-2012
The years, 1950 – present day, will be documented by pieces that would have been in fashion during the separate decades. C20 Vintage is supplying the collection of vintage garments.
1960 Biba Mini Suit
C20 vintage fashion is the “legendary secret Devon warehouse” of Cleo & Mark Butterfield containing one of the largest privately owned collections of vintage clothing in the UK. The ever growing collection has been put together over a 40 year career in vintage clothing and has featured in films and TV productions before becoming an inspirational fashion design resource to international designer labels and high street brands.
The archive has an unrivaled range of garments spanning the entire Twentieth Century including collections by individual designers some of which contain more than 100 pieces including Alaia, Biba, Body Map, Bus Stop, Cardin, Ossie Clark, Comme Des Garcons, Courrges, Dior, Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Bill Gibb, Katherine Hamnett, Margeila, Mugler, Jean Muir, Issey Miyake, McQueen, Westwood & Yves Saint Laurent. Plus stunning collections of 1920’s, 30’s, 60’s & 70’s British boutique movement and 80’s independant label clothes.
1970 Ossie Clark Dress
Clothes from the archive feature in three films due for relase in 2012: Madonna’s “W.E.” about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, Tim Burton’s latest gothic horror “Dark Shadow’s” with Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfieffer and “Parade’s End” a BBC/HBO 5-part television series staring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Museum collaborations have included retrospectives of Bill Gibb, Horrockses, and Tommy Nutter at the Fashion and Textile Museum, “From Beatles to Bowie” at the National Portrait Gallery and the Ossie Clark retrospective at the V&A.
The collection features extensively in four books published by Carlton “Vintage Fashion”, “The Swimsuit”, “Vintage Fashion Knitwear” and “Vintage Weddings”.
The Royal Mail release a set of ten stamps “Great British Fashion” on May 14th which feature clothes chosen from the archive.
