According to The Guardian’s Jess Cartner-Morley, “The fashion world is as in love with Charleston now as the Bloomsbury set were from the moment in 1916 when Virginia Woolf stumbled across the house and wrote to her sister, Vanessa Bell, that ‘it has a charming garden, with a pond, and fruit trees, and vegetables, all now rather run wild, but you could make it lovely’.”
As Cartner-Morley writes, last June in Paris, a replica of the house became a stage for a Dior menswear catwalk show, which featured prints drawn from Duncan Grant’s paintings. The year before, Kate Moss posed for British Vogue on one of the house's old sofas wearing only Fendi high-heeled boots and Vanessa Bell's straw sunhat. Furthermore, next month Charleston will present "Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion," the first major show exploring how the Bloomsbury style influenced fashion, curated by Charlie Porter.
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