“Bags: Inside Out” is the new exhibition hosted at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Through a journey from 1500 until today, the exhibition explores the function, social and political status and craftsmanship of bags, thanks to an archive of 300 objects of various sizes and origins. Among the rarest items, the large embroidered bag used to protect the silver matrix of Elizabeth I’s Great Seal of England, a bag for the gas mask owned by Her Royal Highness Queen Mary during World War II, the famous red shipping box of Winston Churchill and the suitcase of Vivien Leigh. Prada features with the Prada Galleria bag, the Prada Entomology Bag, the Prada Invites nylon bag by Kazuyo Sejima and with one of the first pieces of the Prada backpack. In the “making of” section, moreover, there are also the prototype and the prints of the pattern of the Prada Sidonie bag, as well as a series of components and materials used for the Prada bags.
Victoria and Albert Museum – Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
From 19 May 2021 to 16 January 2022.