A love letter to ‘Debo’: Erdem exhibition celebrates Duchess of Devonshire’s style

Chatsworth House show based on imagined conversation explores youngest Mitford sister's love of chickens and Elvis

The first item in the new exhibition at Chatsworth House celebrating the legacy of the late Duchess of Devonshire is a tweed suit. The youngest Mitford sister was a chicken lover and the bottom few inches - poultry head-height - have been intentionally dishevelled as if ravaged by her Buff Cochins and Welsummers.

The exhibition is an imagined conversation between Deborah Cavendish and the British-Turkish designer Erdem Moralolu, whose last spring/summer show was a love letter to Debo", her wardrobe and the estate in Derbyshire of which she was chatelaine until her death, aged 94, in 2014. Items from her wardrobe punctuate Moralolu's designs inspired by them - the tweed suit is the latter.