Patch Work – A Life Amongst Clothes

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ISBN: 9781526614414
Title: Patch Work – A Life Amongst Clothes
Author: WILCOX CLAIRE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2021
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘A strange and mesmerising piece of work’ Sunday Times
‘An absolute masterpiece’ Laura Cumming
‘An uncommon delight’ Observer

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.

‘Effervescent, poetic, puzzle-like … Wilcox picks at the heartstrings’ Financial Times

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27/05/2021
Pages: 288
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