Frida Kahlo Making Her Self Up At The V&A: The Style (And Life) Lessons I Learned

As I walked into the Frida Kahlo ‘Making Her Self Up’ exhibition at the V&A museum, I expected a focus on Kahlo’s fashion tastes and beauty secrets discovered in the bathroom her husband, Diego Rivera, had locked away for fifty years. Though there is much inspiration for style on display, there is arguably more so for life.

Kahlo’s printed dresses, her fan and even her monobrow may be iconic, but walking around the objects that made up part of the artist’s life, they give away much more about her than purely a vibrant aesthetic and I left with some life lessons of far greater value than anything in the gift shop.