Fifty years of youth fashion at street level to be celebrated in major new exhibition

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Two futurist outfits by young British designers that will feature in an exhibition called Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk, at the Victoria and Albert museum in central London in November. The exhibition, which is to be sponsored by the Independent and Perrier, will look at street fashions from 1940 to the present