Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes / event series.
A trio of intimate events inspired by Claire Wilcox's recently published memoir: a book club session, a live conversation with the author & a creative writing workshop.
Isn't it just fantastic how our clothes hold specific memories of our lives and take us back in time? That is what we find most fascinating about Claire Wilcox’s recently published memoir: Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes. In fact, we loved her literary exercise so much that we decided to make it the subject of an event series.
Our Patch work: A Life Amongst Clothes series encompassed a trio of intimate events: a book club session in September, a live conversation with the author in October and last but not least, a Clothes & Memoirs creative writing workshop facilitated by the fab Joly Licks and inspired by Patch Work in November.
Patch Work book club
Facilitated by Nao and Nessa, co-founders of Wearers Festival. We had tea and shared our thoughts, questions and feelings on the book in an informal and friendly guided session.
Conversation with Claire Wilcox
The author of Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes was in da house! During this intimate conversation with Claire, we got to ask her all our questions about her memoir and know more about her process of writing the book.
Clothes & Memoirs: Creative Writing Workshop
Designed for beginners this creative writing workshop facilitated by the fabulous Fausta Joly gave us resources and techniques to lose the fear of writing and have fun putting the stories of our garments on paper.
About Patchwork: 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 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 Joly Licks
Fausta Joly is a poet/performer and arts events organiser; with her company, Joly Licks - hosting workshops and mini festivals designed to spread the word that creativity is a guarantee of sanity! Recently published in collaboration with Transient Light Tarot deck - providing the poetry for the guide book. Check the beautiful deck out here! She has performed her poetry all over London and for festivals in Berlin, Portugal, the U.S. and the U.K. Currently residing in Greenwich and working on her first poetry collection.
Delighted to be programmed for Wearers Festival and given the opportunity to find new creases and stories from your favourite garments through the wonderful tool of verse!
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.
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