Patch work : a life amongst clothes
Wilcox, Claire2020
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Claire Wilcox has worked as a curator in fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum for most of her working life. Down cool, dark corridors and in quiet store rooms, she and her colleagues care for, catalogue and conserve clothes centuries old, the inscrutable remnants of lives long lost to history; the commonplace or remarkable things that survive the bodies they once encircled or adorned. In 'Patch Work', Wilcox deftly stitches 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 luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear.
Main title:
Patch work : a life amongst clothes / Claire Wilcox.
Author:
Wilcox, Claire, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2020.
Collation:
304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781526614391 (hbk)
Dewey class:
069.092069
LC class:
AM3.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2733473