Features

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  X-raying Balenciaga

  order to find out more about how his incredible designs were constructed, we worked with X-ray artist Nick…
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  X-raying the Fashion collection

  Since 2016, we've been collaborating with artist Nick Veasey, a specialist in the field of X-ray photography…
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  Revealing hidden structures through x-rays

  These x-rays, photographed by artist Nick Veasey, reveal how materials from the natural world have been…
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  About the Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion exhibition

  results of new, forensic investigations into the garments – including a collaboration with X-ray artist Nick…
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  Cameraless photography

  Nick Veasey (born 1962) has perfected X-ray images and achieved an ambitious scale of subject matter,…

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What's On

• Past Event

  Nick Veasey: Forensic Fashion X-Rays

  Examine fashion from the inside out as Nick Veasey shares the stories of his unique career.
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  Art and Science: 1750-1900

  V&A South Kensington

  Director Dr Kathy McLauchlan, guest lecturers include Justine Hopkins, Martin Barnes, Natasha McEnroe and Nick…

From the Blog

• Blog Post

  From Concept to Creation: Designing V&A East Museum

  The X-ray below by Nick Veasey shows the construction of Cristóbal Balenciaga’s evening dress from the…
• Blog Post

  A rhyme to suit your love

  stopped to wonder however, how our ancestors expressed their love on 14 February… The pre-printed verse…
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  V&A East Museum – topping-out

  Donnell + Tuomey’s design was inspired by the Japanese concept of ‘Ma’, or ‘the space between’, and Nick…
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  Ceramics from Islamic Lands conference

  Haour (University of East Anglia), Ceramics from the medieval Maldives Hannah Parsons-Morgan and Nick…
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  Pop-up Performance of the Nonsense Museum

  a child matter-of-factly points out that the painting’s subject is not his mother after all, but a nice…