Georgia May Jagger opens fashion exhibition celebrating Minnie Mouse

Mickey’s better half has always been the more stylish of the pair, but now Minnie Mouse’s influence on fashion is set to be canonised in a photographic exhibition curated by Georgia May Jagger.

Minnie: Style Icon, which runs in partnership with the British Fashion Council, runs from September 18 - 20 at the Black Members Club on Dean Street.

The exhibition will show photographs, sketches, celebrity portraits and fashions spreads from the 1930s up until the present day. Among the collection will be never-seen-before Minnie-inspired images of Georgia May Jagger, Herb Ritts’ iconic 1987 photographs of Madonna with Minnie ears and Chanel Iman’s African-themed Minnie shoot for the German Vogue.

Minnie was first seen in the 1928 cartoon Steam Boat Willy, alongside Mikey. She was styled as a twenties flapper, based on the actress Colleen Moore. Her now-iconic polka dot dress based on Coco Chanel’s Easy Jersey collection.

Georgia May Jagger, a Minnie fan, said she was “really excited to be including my own photographic work in the exhibition, interpreting Minnie’s style in a different way and showing how the classic often inspires the contemporary.”