Emma Watson with Burberry's Woolf bag
Emma Watson, star of the Harry Potter films, is the new “face” of Burberry, and Burberry’s new fall/winter collection is said to be inspired by Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set.
But I don’t think Woolf would have opted to spend £1,095 on the roomy suede tote with embroidered overlay that Burberry has dubbed its “Woolf bag.”
Nor can I imagine Woolf, who wandered so many miles around London, schlepping along carrying such a huge bag. I picture her using roomy pockets, not a handbag, to carry what she needed. Cast your vote on the issue by taking the poll below.
However, I do wish I had managed to attend the fashion panel, “Bloomsbury and Fashion,” at Woolf and the City.
Here are the intriguing presentations it included:
- “Clothes Make the Flaneuse” – Catherine Mintler, University of Oklahoma
- “The Language of Shop Windows in Virginia Woolf’s Novels” – Katarzyna Rybinska, Wroclaw University
- “Cities of Fashion: Sartorial Topographies in ‘Street Haunting,’ Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves” – Randi Koppen, University of Bergen
- “Self-Fashioning Identity: Clothing and Subjectivity in Orlando: A Biography” – Ula Lukszo, Stony Brook University.
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Alice, thanks for adding this information about another fashion panel at Woolf and the City.
There were two panels on Bloomsbury & Fashion. The second one was also outstanding & included:
“Definite, rather bad, taste?”: Ottoline Morrell In and Out of the Eyes of Bloomsbury – Celia Marshik, Stony Brook University
“for ever and ever she will make my clothes”: Virginia Woolf and Dressmaking for the Omega – Elizabeth Sheehan, University of Virginia
Virginia Woolf’s Couture Dress – Jane Garrity, University of Colorado, Boulder