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Patch work : a life amongst clothes

Title
Patch work : a life amongst clothes / Claire Wilcox.
Author
Wilcox, Claire
Publication
  • London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Description
270 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear. In a series of intimate and compelling close-ups, Wilcox tugs on the threads that make up the fabric of our lives: a cardigan worn by a child, a mother's button box, the draping of a curtain, a pair of cycling shorts, a roll of lace, a pin hidden in a seam. Through the eye of a curator, 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.
Subject
  • Wilcox, Claire
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Women museum curators > Great Britain
  • Women museum curators > Great Britain > Biography
  • Museum curators > Great Britain
  • Costume
  • Museum curators
  • Women museum curators
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Autobiographies.
Contents
Prelude -- Beginning -- Brink -- Verdant -- Storeroom -- Catch -- Entwined -- Love -- Gather -- Sensate -- Curator -- Seam -- Loss -- Dusk -- Immersion -- Mist -- Archive -- Home -- Vertigo -- Nocturne.
Call Number
JFD 21-1005
ISBN
  • 9781526614391
  • 1526614391
LCCN
2020416644
OCLC
1197755533
Author
Wilcox, Claire, author.
Title
Patch work : a life amongst clothes / Claire Wilcox.
Publisher
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781526614384
Research Call Number
JFD 21-1005
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