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As Audrey Hepburn once said, “If clothes make the man, then certainly the costume designer makes the actor.”

The work of costume designers is part art, part fashion design, part history, and part drama. It's about capturing someone's essence, representing life in a particular time or place, and making a statement about performers that inspires fantasy and distinguishes them from the crowd. This program explores the thriving theatrical design community in London.

Program Highlights

Hotel Stay: 6 Nights

Meals: 6 breakfasts, 2 dinners,
including a Medieval Banquets

Accomodations

100 Years of Theatre Tour, Angels Costumiers, Globe Theatre, Bath Fashion Museum, Roman Baths, National Theatre Costume House.

Sightseeing & Seminars

Airport-hotel transfers

Hotel and local taxes

Touring by deluxe private motorcoach, services of a professional tour manager.

Also Included

Sample Itinerary

Day One

Depart U.S.

Overnight flight from US to London.

DAY two
Arrive in London

Morning arrival at Heathrow. Meet your Select Travel Service study tour manager. Departing the airport we make the journey into central London. En route to the hotel we embark upon a panoramic tour of the both the City and West End. See such sights as Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square and Regents Street. Plenty of photo stops are planned along the way. 

Early afternoon hotel check in and unpack. Gather together again for an early dinner before retiring for the night.

Day Three

Setting the Scene

Enjoy a Theatreland Walking Tour on the theme of "100 Years of London Theatre". Trace theatreland's history from Edwardian Music Hall and Suffragette Drama via revues, musicals, theatre clubs and battles with the censor, to subsidy, and the fringe. Learn about personalities who have shaped theatre in the past 100 years from Charles Wyndham and Herbert Beerbohm Tree to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh.

This afternoon we visit one of the London costumiers such as Angels. Angels has been dressing the entertainment industry for nearly 170 years. Others include The Costume Studio and Academy Costumes. These are some of the largest collections of costumes and accessories anywhere in the world, all of which are available for productions large and small, from epic to art-house.

Tonight we will attend a performance at one of London's famous West End theatres.

Day Four

The South Bank

Morning visit to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on London's South Bank. Tour the magnificent reconstruction of this 16th century theatre and enjoy a costume and design workshop on a subject of your choice. Tonight we will attend a performance at the Globe, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse or National Theatre.

Day Five

City of Bath

Enjoy a full day excursion to Bath by train. We catch the train to Bath located 90 minutes to the west of London. Bath is one of England's most beautiful, elegant and historic cities, and is classed as a World Heritage City. 

For centuries Bath has been a centre of fashion, attracting visitors to its spa and social diversions. The Assembly Rooms is one of Bath's finest Georgian buildings and is still central to the city's social life. Very appropriately it also houses the Fashion Museum and its internationally renowned collection of fashionable dress. We enjoy a guided tour by one of the museum curators, and a collection of items from a pre-selected period, with sketching materials, can be made available for closer inspection and study.

In Bath, enjoy a visit to the Roman Baths. Perhaps the best preserved Roman religious spa from the ancient world, there are four main features: The Sacred Spring, The Roman Temple, The Roman Bath House and finds from Roman Bath. We'll also see the Georgian Pump Room. Late afternoon return to London by train.

Day Six

National Theatre &
the V&A Museum

Today we spend at the National Theatre's costume department, and the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection. An NT tour takes you behind-the scenes to see three auditoriums, front-of-house, scenic workshops and backstage areas, all in the company of well-informed, enthusiastic guides. A workshop is included with members of their costume department. 

The Victoria and Albert Museum's Theatre Collections hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK. It also house some magnificent historical costume collections which will be seen in the company of one of the museum's expert Curators.

Day Seven

Fashion Walk

Morning guided walking tour of London’s East End, now the hub of the city’s fashion and garment district. We will explore the latest trends and merchandising tricks as well as visit an up and coming design studio. 

Afternoon available for personal retail therapy and research! 

Evening: Elizabethan Banquet at the 15th century Old Palace, on the grounds of Hatfield House, where Queen Elizabeth I heard of her ascension to the throne and called her first Council of State.

Day Eight

Return Home

Regrettably this morning we bid farewell to England and journey to Heathrow for our return flight home.