Valerie Baber Designs

It was a specifically uninspiring day weather-wise on Friday in London. And since I’ve started my new job, I’ve been more than usually under the kosh from a work-load point of view. I had earlier in the week, in a fit of optimism, booked myself a timed-ticket to the Kaffe Fassett – a Life in Colour exhibition at the Museum of Fashion and Textile tucked away in south-east London, but the nearer the time came, the less I felt like stirring from my desk.

I am so very glad that I did!

The exhibition started with a smaller room, showing photos, drawings and early work by and of Kaffe. I didn’t know anything about the early career of Kaffe Fasset and it was revealing to find out that a trip to the UK in the mid-1960s changed the course of his life and career, when after a visit, he decided…