Artistic Dress at Liberty & CoExploring how the name of Liberty became synonymous with Aestheticism and the English Art Nouveau Movement, and its role in shaping contemporary late nineteenth and early twentieth century Artistic Dress. Liberty's dress department opened in 1884, headed by Edward William Godwin, an architect with a multi faceted career and an important figure in the Aesthetic Movement. From the mid nineteenth century, women fought against restrictive clothing such as