V&A Magazine covers all aspects of the visual arts – architecture, design, craft, photography, fashion and fine art – taking the V&A's exhibition and display programme as its starting point.
Released 17 June 2013
Iain R Webb takes us by the hand and leads us through 1980s London, from riotous mobs to riotous fashion
Charlotte Gere looks at how pearls come into being, how they have been depicted and how they attained their power
Amanda Harlech reflects on the significance that pearls have had since her childhood
Emily King considers the relationship between literature and visual material, and the state of the book in the twenty-first century
A poem for V&A Magazine on the theme of memory by Chris McCabe
Peter York discusses his favourite V&A objects
The cover has been created by Terry Jones, founder and creative director of i-D, for V&A Magazine
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