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Ready for your close-up? New exhibition opens at York Castle Museum

‘Shaping the Body’ – New exhibition at York Castle Museum from 25 March 2016The sounds of paparazzi cameras clicking will welcome visitors when they step into the new exhibition at York Castle Museum from this Friday (25 March 2016) which includes a brand new catwalk where visitors can strut their stuff! Walking down the steps into the gallery, the sounds of London, Milan and New York Fashion Week welcome them in to explore 400 years of style, with clothes taken from York Museums Trust’s extensive collection – one of the biggest in the country.  From a dress worn by the diminutive Queen

Budget 2016: Sugar levy is 'history repeating', according to York curators

Budget annoucement on new sugar levy on manufacturers of soft drinks - bringing back the Sugar Act 1764?“History repeating!”  That’s how Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement today of a sugar tax on companies producing sugary drinks has been described by historians in York, who have compared the measure destined to raise £520 million in tax to the original Sugar Tax that raised £1 million per year from 1764 to 1874. “Until the early 19thcentury, sugar cane was the only source of sugar, and as this could not be grown in our country’s cold climate, it was an expensive luxury item for

The art of body modification - new exhibition explores historic ways to reshape the body

“Shaping The Body” – new permanent exhibition opens on 25 March 2016With the trend for body modification – from tattoos to implants – currently at an all-time high, visitors to York Castle Museum from 25 March 2016 will see how the links between fashion and body shape have manifested over the last 400 years. Whilst surgery and medical intervention, from breast implants to hormone therapy, offer a contemporary and permanent means of changing the body, the desire to modify the shape of the body has been a common theme of fashion for centuries – with many parallels between historic and

It's all about that bustle - rounded rears Victorian-style

Shaping the Body, from 25 March at York Castle MuseumReading the newspapers and celebrity magazines, one could easily imagine that the generously proportioned posteriors of Kim Kardashian and J-Lo were a completely new phenomenon, but visitors to a new permanent exhibition at York Castle Museum will discover that displaying a rounded rump has been a fashion staple for centuries! “Since Elizabethan times, with a few notable periods, women’s fashion has been obsessed with highlighting and accentuating a woman’s curves, with corsets used to shape and cinch the waist, and from

It's all about that bustle - rounded rears Victorian-style

Shaping the Body, from 25 March at York Castle MuseumReading the newspapers and celebrity magazines, one could easily imagine that the generously proportioned posteriors of Kim Kardashian and J-Lo were a completely new phenomenon, but visitors to a new permanent exhibition at York Castle Museum will discover that displaying a rounded rump has been a fashion staple for centuries! “Since Elizabethan times, with a few notable periods, women’s fashion has been obsessed with highlighting and accentuating a woman’s curves, with corsets used to shape and cinch the waist, and from around 1580, a

History's killer fashion: arsenic dress to go on display at York Castle Museum

“Shaping the Body: Food, Fashion & Life” from 25 March 2016In contemporary language, ‘killer fashion’ tends to refer to cutting-edge designs, but a new exhibition – Shaping the Body: Food, Fashion and Life - opening at York Castle Museum for Easter 2016 explores different periods in history where following the latest fashion trends could quite literally curtail your life expectancy! As the exhibition’s senior curator, Ali Bodley, explains, fashion history is littered with designs and styles that would could have lethal consequences when worn: “Ingredients that we now know to be toxic

History's killer fashion: arsenic dress to go on display at York Castle Museum

'Shaping the Body: Food, Fashion & Life' from 25 March 2016In contemporary language, ‘killer fashion’ tends to refer to cutting-edge designs, but a new exhibition – Shaping the Body: Food, Fashion and Life - opening at York Castle Museum for Easter 2016 explores different periods in history where following the latest fashion trends could quite literally curtail your life expectancy! As the exhibition’s senior curator, Ali Bodley, explains, fashion history is littered with designs and styles that would could have lethal consequences when worn: “Ingredients that we now know to be toxic

Sugar Tax 2016: History Repeating, according to York Curators

“History repeating!”  That’s how curators of the Castle Museum in York have described the latest suggestions that a sugar tax could be implemented as part of a raft of measures to tackle the obesity crisis in 2016. The curatorial team at York Castle Museum is currently putting together a new permanent exhibition, opening for Easter 2016, which looks at the links between fashion, lifestyle and diet throughout the last 400 years, including an exhibit dedicated to sugar, from its first introduction to the English aristocracy, to a modern day addiction. “Until the early 19thcentury, sugar

The men who laid the path (or catwalk) for Derek Zoolander on show at York Castle Museum

New permanent exhibition, Shaping The Body, from 25 March 2016Derek Zoolander, who returns to the silver screen for Ben Stiller’s sequel, Zoolander 2, may have made a career out of looking really, really good looking in the most outlandish fashions of the day, but men were donning even more outrageous styles 400 years ago, according to curators of the new ‘Shaping the Body’ exhibition opening on 25 March at York Castle Museum. Trend-setters of the past were not designers who used models to show off their fashions, but rather wealthy ladies and gentlemen who used to cultivate their own

Fashion, food and lifestyle - major new exhibition to explore 400 years of shaping the body

York Castle Museum, opens 25 March 2016An iron corset, crotchless pantaloons from the time of Jane Austen, bum rolls and a killer dress are a few of the items that will feature in a major new exhibition at York Castle Museum, which charts the way fashion, food and fitness have shaped the body over the last 400 years. “In today’s selfie generation, it is said that we have become more image conscious than ever before, with the lengths that people will go to in order to achieve the ‘perfect’ look seeming ever more drastic, but the reality is that even before the age of the digital camera,

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