{"id":125654,"date":"2022-03-28T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/she-broke-boundaries-how-textile-artist-althea-mcnish-made-britain-bloom\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:19:35","slug":"she-broke-boundaries-how-textile-artist-althea-mcnish-made-britain-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/she-broke-boundaries-how-textile-artist-althea-mcnish-made-britain-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She broke boundaries\u2019: how textile artist Althea McNish made Britain bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAn inspiration for Balenciaga and Dior, the flamboyant fabrics of the Trinidad-born artist brought Caribbean colour into 50s British householdsThe Trinidad-born British designer and artist Althea McNish\u2019s bold textile prints rescued 1950s Britain from postwar gloom, ushering in the upbeat 60s with outsize flowers in a humid palette. Her early work with forward-thinking fabric producers such as Liberty, Ascher Ltd and Hull Traders brought Caribbean heat into British living rooms, while Christian Dior and Balenciaga used her pop-bright prints on floaty silk dresses.\u201cShe layered two unique identities,\u201d says Rose Sinclair, the co-curator of Colour Is Mine, a long-overdue, posthumous survey of McNish\u2019s 70-year career. \u201cIn terms of the Black influence on British culture, her textiles say it loud and clear.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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