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Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox (Hardcover, 2020)

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR '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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781526614391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4046563065

Product Key Features

Book Title
Patch Work: a Life Amongst Clothes
Author
Claire Wilcox
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Health, History
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
414g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Claire Wilcox
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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