Take a peek inside: Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto - opening this weekend. Link to tickets in bio Members go free With the support of @chanelofficial In partnership with @palaisgallieramuseedelamode and @parismusees #CHANEL

Say hello to our new museum, Young V&A 🎉 After three years, we’ll finally open our doors this weekend in Bethnal Green. @young.vam is free and designed entirely for children, with three new galleries: Play, Imagine and Design 🎨 Over 2,000 objects from 2,300 BC to today make up the museum, from all around the world. Packed full of hands-on experiences including our story-telling stage, sensory playscapes and optical illusions. We’re here to showcase the power of creativity in kids’ lives, and tell their inspiring stories 🌟 Come join us from Saturday 1 July. — Young V&A was made possible by The McLain Foundation, Prue McLeod, Dunard Fund, Buffini Chao Foundation, The BAND Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Andrew Hochhauser KC, Oak Foundation, The Portal Trust, The Thompson Family Charitable Trust, Wolfson Foundation and many other supporters. 📷 - © Luke Hayes 3) - © David Parry

Welcome to the stage, DIVA. Open today! Celebrate the power and creativity of iconic performers 🌟 Explore how the role of ‘diva’ has been both subverted and embraced over time, across opera, stage, pop and film 🎤 “A joyous reminder of the self-belief of the diva’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (The Telegraph) ‘The perfect summer smash hit’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (The Times) Members go free Supported by @netaporter

Be a Queen 👑 Use our new filter to try on Queen Victoria’s most treasured jewel - the stunning sapphire and diamond coronet designed for her by Prince Albert.

A dress made to look like waves 🌊 Designed by Jean Dessès in 1951, and worn by Princess Margaret, the overlapping, curved pleats formed into scalloped panels on this bodice front suggest a stylised rendition of receding waves. 📸 Cocktail dress of silk and jacket of silk organza, designed by Jean Dessès, Paris, 1951

Take a moment out of your day.   Find a quiet spot, close your eyes and join Deep K Kailey in a focused practice for the mind, known as Simran. 
Derived from contemporary Sikh teachings, Simran is a spiritual practice that centres the mind through deep listening and focused repetition, helping to draw your attention away from the outer world and back to yourself. 
Intrigued? How about contemplating these ideas in person?  
Join us at tomorrow’s Friday Late for ‘Deeper’ - a live deep listening session combining music with Simran, activating an immersive soundscape that evokes a state of peace and clarity.  See the full programme via link in bio. - As part of London Design Festival, ‘Unstruck Melody’ is a collaboration between British-Canadian artist @nepsidhu and UK arts organisation @withoutshapewithoutform, bringing together art and spirituality through contemporary Sikh teachings in a new installation at the V&A. Presented by @iamdeepkailey Music by Carlos Niño & Friends

This 18th-century spinning wheel was designed for both function and flaunting. Young ladies of the time used such equipment to not only practice their needlework skills but also to captivate admirers with their dexterity. The marquetry base is adorned with a captivating scene featuring Diana, the goddess of hunting and love, accompanied by Cupid and a hound. While Diana may seem an unusual choice for such a delicate piece, she symbolised not only the pursuit of outdoor virtues but also chastity and childbirth, which were of great importance in that era.

Who says you need a camera to take a photo? Created without a camera, the images shown here were made by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of photographic paper. Learn more about this technique via link in bio. 1) William Henry Fox Talbot - Single Leaf, 1839 2) Barbara and Zafer Baran - Dianthus # 135 (Flower Cabinet), 2003 3) Angela Easterling - Photogram of Ramiro Peppers, 2000 4) Anna Atkins - Papaver Orientale, 1852-1854 5) Barbara and Zafer Baran, Dahlia # 120, 2003

"Fashion changes. Style endures." To celebrate the opening of our new exhibition Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto, we asked our party guests to share the secrets of their style and why it is so fundamental to them. See Gabriel Chanel. Fashion Manifesto - link to tickets in bio Members go free With the support of @chanelofficial In partnership with @palaisgallieramuseedelamode and @parismusees #CHANEL

This little sketch records one of the great close friendships in British art, that of Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. They first met in 1853 as undergraduates at Oxford, and went on to collaborate on many artistic and decorative projects. In this caricature, Morris is reading poetry to Burne-Jones while he shows himself apparently asleep.

Today’s the day! ✨ London Design Festival returns to the V&A. This year’s installations reveal untold human stories and celebrate the global power of design to bind communities. From retelling the life story of a scrapped car repurposed into domestic objects, to a Hana Mikoshi ‘flower shrine’ adorned with 50,000 sakura-inspired washi paper flowers handcrafted in Japan, these projects are an invitation for everyone to participate in design and rethink our relationship with materials. See the installations from 16 September - 15 October as part of @l_d_f_official Find out more via link in bio.

Pick one☝️ 📸- Posters by Anthony Burrill, ‘godfather of the graphic art scene', 2004-11.