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Heidi Blöcher, Textile Conservator, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening of Beyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

Heidi Blöcher, Textile Conservator, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening of Beyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

National Museum of Scotland
Raise A Paddle © Fenton Lutunatabua / 350.org

Raise A Paddle © Fenton Lutunatabua / 350.org

National Museum of Scotland
Seals from the Declaration of Arbroath credit Mike Brooks © King's Printer for Scotland, National Records of Scotland, SP13-7

Seals from the Declaration of Arbroath credit Mike Brooks © King's Printer for Scotland, National Records of Scotland, SP13-7

National Museum of Scotland
Two portraits of important members of the Chief of Clan Grant’s household are now on display in the National Museum of Scotland. The oil paintings by Richard Waitt were commissioned in 1713 by Alexander, the Laird of Grant, as part of a larger series depicting prominent clan members. Shown wea

Champion and Piper paintings hung in National Museum of Scotland (credit Duncan McGlynn)

National Museum of Scotland