The Enchanted Palace

This exhibition in on at Kensington Palace currently and is amazing. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in fashion, art or fantasy fairytales. I've never been to Kensington Palace before but it's been transformed into an "Enchanted Palace" with artists and designers such as Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest and Stephen Jones using different rooms to create art installations reflecting different historical stories and figures from the past. As a complete history and fashion geek it goes without saying that I loved it.
Most of the rooms had blacked out windows and the whole exhibition followed quite a spooky and almost sinister theme with bare trees and shadows reflected on the walls and ceilings. One of my favourite rooms was "The Room of Dancing Princesses" which was filled with bare, leafless tress and had the dresses of Princess Margaret and Princess Diana, posed in dancing stances, both tragic stories in their own ways.
Another very striking installation was Vivienne Westwood, who's work I adore anyway. Her room was a huge sweeping staircase called the Room of Flight, which depicted the story of one princess who married for love but later died during childbirth. The dress was placed standing on the staircase and was very ghostly without mannequin or body inside. A simple but powerful statement.

I apologise for the poor photography of the exhibition, cameras weren't allowed so it was very much a sneaky and shoddy job from my bag.

Lots of love, R xoxoxox