For a second year, the East End’s Town Hall Hotel has handed over the walls of its main staircase to the London College of Fashion; presenting the MA Fashion Photography’s 2025 exhibition ‘The Everyday & The Epic’…
Open to the public, without ticket, until December 2025, London’s Town Hall Hotel is once again proving itself a proud patron of budding creatives with the showing of the London College of Fashion’s latest Fashion Photography exhibition.
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Hung around the hotel’s main staircase – a design-feat in its own right, ‘The Everyday & The Epic’ exhibition explores photography and fashion as cultural mediators, from the banal to the profound ongoings that shape lives in both ordinary and extraordinary ways.
Beyond its name, the exhibition is a response to the theme of Fashion Photography, which ‘presents spectacles from the vernacular through to the fantastic’ as ‘images of street style, subculture or social communities, juxtaposed against flights of fancy and propositions for better or different lives in another dimension, offer a wish fulfilment or a call for change’.
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Situated in Bethnal Green, the Town Hall Hotel once served as the borough’s municipal building before its conversion into a boutique design hotel, and for creative audiences, it now also acts as a cultural patron. The hotel was conceived as a blended space for art, hospitality, and design: the 2010-refurbishment preserved its Edwardian features – such as sweeping marble staircases, moulded ceilings, and grand detailing – while inserting a contemporary extension to the rear and rooftop, completed by DROO (Da Costa Mahindroo Architects) and NAME Architecture.
This ongoing partnership with the London College of Fashion aligns with a desire by the hotel to animate its interiors with public-facing art, transforming into a living gallery.
Main image credit: Town Hall Hotel
