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Description: | This headscarf commemorates the Silver Jubilee and is designed by London-born, Oliver Messel. Oliver Messel was most famous in the 1930s and 1940s for theatrical designs. He was the creator of flamboyant costumes and sets for ballet and stage productions. After the second World War he even started to branch out into Hollywood Films, including The Thief of Baghdad (1940) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). The design was originally commissioned for Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 and produced and printed in gold, by Cresta Silks Ltd. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | Identity and Icons | Temporal: | 1977 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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