If you hate Halloween, but you fancy going out tomorrow and you happen to be in London, don’t miss the event “Beyond Espionage: Fashion under Socialism” at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
The event - curated by Renate Stauss, lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and Marketa Uhlirova, Co-founder, Director and Curator of the Fashion in Film Festival - is part of the Late Friday programme and promises to be extremely interesting. 
Through nine newsreels and documentaries - all from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s and from post-war East Germany and Czechoslovakia - “Beyond Espionage” will indeed explore the impact of socialism on fashion.
If you want to know more about the main theme of the event, you can read my interview with Renate and Marketa on the Dazed Digital site.
The piece also features some amazing screen captures from Attention Please: Fashion! directed by Pavel Hobl (1960) and from two fashion shows, one in a Malesice Housing Estate in Prague (1964), and another at the Steel Work Factory Henningsdorf (1951). Images featured in this brief post are instead from the fashion show at an Agricultural Production Cooperative (1955) and from Youth Fashion: Jugendmode 1976 (1976).
Many thanks to Renate Stauss and Marketa Uhlirova for providing great feedback and to Dorcas Brown for sending us the images to go with the Dazed Digital piece.
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