Victoria & Albert Museum

...to the Vee'n'A Museum in South Kensington, London yesterday, seeking out iconic images of the 60s for my daughter's GCSE art course. The museum has a vast, eclectic selection but there are some dark and badly-lit corners. Our last museum visit, to the Kelvingrove in Glasgow, proved more satisfying. Nevertheless, we found three truly iconic images.

(above) detail from a Mary Quant designer dress, modelled by Jean Shrimpton, photographed by John French - three icons of 60s' fashion.

'The first chair to be conceived entirely as a single piece, but the materials and techniques took several years to develop. These early examples are made of fibreglass-reinforced polyseter, which was strong but also brittle and heavy. Polyurethane, polystyrene and polypropylene have all been used at different times since then.' Designed by Werner Panton (Danish 1926-98), manufactured by Herman Miller Furniture Company, Michigan, USA in 1967 out of moulded fibreglass and reinforced polyester. 

* Exploring Photography at the V&A

Two more defining photographs from the 60s: (left) Twiggy, shot by Cecil Beaton and (right) Christine Keeler, shot by Lewis Morley in 1963 and taken at the height of the revelations regarding her affair with the government minister John Profumo.