Coutts & Co and Louise Goldin’s ‘Paper Dress’ now at the Fashion and Textile Museum
The Fashion and Textile Museum is currently displaying the stunning Louise Goldin ‘Paper Dress’ that was commissioned by Coutts & Co to be the centrepiece of their Coutts Fashion Forward window installation, during London Fashion Week. The dress will be displayed for two weeks from the 27th September and is attracting considerable interest from the press and visitors.
The dress, made almost entirely of sustainably sourced paper, was commissioned by Coutts in celebration of their sponsorship of this year’s Fashion Forward Award and has been designed to raise awareness amongst UK creative industry entrepreneurs of the equal importance for business planning as well as creativity to ensure success.
Coutts, in collaboration with fashion consultant Guy Hipwell, approached Louise to create a dramatic, exclusive and eye-catching dress to form the stunning centrepiece for their window. Echoing the style of items from Louise’s spring/summer 2010 collection, complete with its dramatic pleats and intricate folds, hours of design and careful cutting, pasting and gluing went into its creation and the result has produced one of the most striking windows ever created by Coutts.
The Fashion and Textile Museum is thrilled to have the opportunity to display this spectacular piece for the next two weeks so that visitors can get a chance to view the dress if they missed it during London Fashion Week.
For further information about FTM and its activities visit www.ftmlondon.org
Exhibition opening times are Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm. Last admission 5.15pm.
More information on Coutts & Co work with London Fashion Week can be found at the Coutts & Co LFW microsite
- Coutts & Co is the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
- The first Coutts & Co regional office to be opened was Eton in 1961. Today, Coutts & Co has regional offices in Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Eton, Exeter, Guildford, Hampshire, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield and Tunbridge Wells.
- Coutts & Co offers clients a range of products and services covering sophisticated investment products together with expertise in trust and fiduciary services and UK tax and banking services. Coutts commercial banking arm also provides full banking service to UK businesses. It has delivered commercial banking services for over 200 years.
- Coutts is committed to nurturing British talent, with over 20,000 of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs choosing to bank with them. Their experience and expertise in supporting these clients places them well to support the next generation of entrepreneurs, and they are doing this through their support of London Fashion Week’s Fashion Forward Award.
- This sponsorship brings together Coutts ongoing work with entrepreneurs and the bank’s series of creative industries sponsorships. Louise Goldin’s ‘Coutts Paper Dress' itself is designed to raise awareness for business planning within the creative industries and ‘getting a business plan onto paper’ to ensure success.
- Coutts plans to extend its sponsorship of London Fashion Week by supporting emerging talent through a programme of business mentoring and financial advice. Andrew Haigh, Head of Entrepreneurs at Coutts has been mentoring Louise Goldin on her business planning.
- This sponsorship reinforces Coutts commitment to the world of contemporary creative industries, where the last few years have seen the private bank enjoy highly successful relationships with fashion designers such as Stella McCartney, Alice Temperley and Oswald Boateng; and sponsorship of Matthew Williamson’s ‘10 Years in Fashion’ retrospective at the Design Museum and most recently Coutts London Jewellery Week.
For further information please contact:
Jo Thorne, Coutts & Co, Tel: 0207 957 2650, email: joanna.thorne@coutts.com
