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MUSEUM OF LONDON 
DOCKLANDS

EXHIBITION SOUND DESIGN / AUDIO CONSULTANCY / SOUNDSCAPES / CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT / MOTION GRAPHIC AV / ORAL TESTIMONY POINTS / INTERVIEW FILMING / EDITING / SFX / SHOW DESIGN / FILM SYNCHRONISATION  

FASHION CITY

Museum of London Docklands ‘Fashion City' is an exhibition uncovering the major contribution of Jewish designers to making London a global, iconic, fashion city. 

Staged as a literal walk through of reinterpreted 19th / 20th century London streets and shops, Skellon Studio's exhibition design takes the visitor from East to West City, through the residents, trainees, creatives and tailors who contributed to London's reputation. AY-PE's creative audio-visual designs strengthen the 'street-life' experience, whilst delivering the stories and details of the people, trades and garments that made up this movement of people, and the boom in the London fashion industry. 

Client: Museum of London

Exhibition Design: Skellon Studio

Image credit above: Museum of London

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MIGRATION FILM

Two bold filmic pieces book-end the Fashion City experience. The first, in the East End, elegantly but objectively explores the context of Jewish immigration to London. Visitors can draw their own thoughts from the layers of societal, geographical and statistical information displayed through motion graphic design and interpreted source materials.

HEARING THE CITY

Visitors from an artistic sound-bed of oral testimonial quotes on migration, to the ambience of 19th century streets, schools and tailor’s workshop. Sound design physically flows East to West as our Tube rumble takes the visitor through the Underground tunnel and out into the bustling soundscape of streets, boutiques and couture stores, reminiscent of the 20th century West End. 

Discreet oral audio points also deliver personal and atmospheric snapshots into migration, settlement and growth.

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FASHION ICONS

We were honoured to film and edit the interviews of Dr Lucie Whitmore as she spoke with iconic designer David Sassoon and with those who recalled their close connections with the designer Netty Spiegel. The films were created to feel rich and stylish, yet personal, picking up on the flashes of emotion – the viewer connecting with how this fashion evolution felt to those who were directly involved.

WEST END COLLAGE

The second exhibition bookend - creative film, helps set the tone for the West End. Based on the notion of Piccadilly Circus and its bright advertising board patchwork, still and moving images appear and disappear, synched across four screens, in a splendour of ‘retro’ feeling graphic motions and overlays. The assets, carefully chosen by Museum of London in conjunction with AY-PE’s guidance, reflect the boom in London’s global fashion presence as people from Jimi Hendrix to Dr Who and Princess Margaret wear the iconic designs.

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EVENING STANDARD,
UK PRESS

A thorough and nuanced depiction of the makers of London fashion.

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