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Patch Work - A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
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Patch Work - A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
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'I am overwhelmed by this book. It is an absolute masterpiece. A
book of such beauty and profundity, of such poetry in its emotion
and observation ... I found my sense of life transformed by her
writing as I often find it transformed after the exhibition of a
great artist' LAURA CUMMING 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.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Claire Wilcox
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Dimensions: |
223 x 142 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5266-1439-1 |
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LSN: |
1-5266-1439-1 |
Barcode: |
9781526614391 |
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