Fashion in Motion
Eden Loweth & Maggi Hambling

The V&A’s first Fashion in Motion of 2025 is a collaboration between designer Eden Loweth and artist Maggi Hambling. These free catwalk shows present a new collection created by Loweth in response to Hambling’s work. They are held in tribute to the late Derek Jarman, a great friend of Hambling and a personal inspiration to Loweth.

Deep Breath by Joseph Butler

inhale…

The cartoons of the Raphael Gallery, now bathed in red, have looked on for hundreds of years, but now hundreds of fresh eyes are waiting for the bare feet of thirty models to begin to move across cold marble. The walls breathe with the energised pulses of Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’. The lights show us what we long to see. This gallery is not just a catwalk, where thirty figures from across the arts have become gracious models, but the expanse of an enduring artistic career. In this seminal collaboration between designer Eden Loweth and artist Maggi Hambling, canvases and bodies become indistinguishable, paint and cloth unite, the rebellious act of creation strides down the runway – two artistic forces as one.

Creative Director Eden Loweth
Creative Collaborator Maggi Hambling
Literary Director Joseph Butler
Spatial Curator Jeffrey Horsley
Creative Consultants Mimma Viglezio, Huguette Tchiapi
Artisanal Screen Print Rachael Cooper
Hair Specialist Designbydn
Show Production Bacchus Agency
Hair L’Oréal Professionnel
Make up Maria Papadopoulou with The Ordinary, NIOD, FX Diamond and Dr.PAWPAW
Nails Glitterbels
BTS Photography Una Burnand