The muses of time

Every fashion designer worth his salt has a 'muse' these days, usually in the form of a model. This exhibition is dedicated to these superhuman creatures who, together with designers and photographers such as Cecil Beaton, David Bailey and Peter Lindbergh, have charted - and indeed shaped - our ever-shifting ideals of style and beauty. From Forties glamour pusses and sixties poster girls to nineties Amazonian supermodels (Naomi Campbell, above) and waif-icon Kate Moss, it's a beauty pageant through the 20th Century. To some these women are aspirational, to others merely overpaid clothes-horses; either way, many are now considered not just muses but the faces of entire generations.

Holly Kyte