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A semi-digital conversation with V&A Senior Fashion Curator and author of the memoir "Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes"!

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About this event

Yes, at Wearers Festival we are all about clothes and people's relationships to dress, and that is why when Claire Wilcox published her memoir earlier this year we could not resist inviting her to have tea with us and our community.

Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes is a book published by Bloomsbury that recounts the memories of Claire's life through the clothes that she has worn, collected and worked with, and the garments of her loved ones and the people who have touched her life. Written in a beautiful prose that takes the reader on a journey into the fascinating world of the V&A's archives and the intimate experiences of a Senior Fashion Curator, Patch Work became an instant favourite for us.

Have questions for Claire? Want to know more about her experience writing the book and living through clothes? Do you have thoughts that you want to share with the author? Then join us from home! This will be an informal and friendly session addressing the power of objects, the practice of collecting and the beauty of language and dress.

Date: Wednesday 13th Oct 2021

Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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About Claire Wilcox

Claire Wilcox has been Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A since 2004, where she has curated exhibitions including Radical Fashion, The Art and Craft of Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, and, as co-curator, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, and instigated Fashion in Motion (live catwalk events in the museum) in 1999. She is Professor in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion and is on the editorial board of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. She lives in South London.

About Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes

Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she turns her curator's eye to the fabric of life itself, tugging at the threads of memory: a cardigan worn by a child, a tin button box, the draping of a curtain, a pair of cycling shorts, a roll of lace, a pin hidden in a seam. Through these intimate and compelling close-ups, we see how the stories and the secrets of clothes measure out the passage of time, our gains and losses, and the way we use them to unravel and write our histories.

About Wearers Festival

Wearers Festival is a permanent multidisciplinary art festival that celebrates and explores the diversity of London and the UK through the dress codes of its communities.

www.wearersfestival.com
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Conversation w/ Claire Wilcox, author of Patch Work: A Life Amongst ClothesLondon, United Kingdom