Fashioning Masculinities by Rosalind Mckever
Featuring a staggering range of cultural touchstones from Hercules to Virgil Abloh, Giovanni Battista Moroni to Jawaharlal Nehru, Yves Saint Laurent to Kehinde Wiley, Fashioning Masculinities challenges our preconceptions, revealing the fascinating historical roots beneath the power, artistry and diversity of masculine attire and appearance today.
The book contains short, savvy essays exploring aspects of masculine fashionAnd it is beautiful: full of crisply rendered images of paintings, photojournalism and photographs of garments from the V&A's unparalleled collection. Richard Thompson Ford, South China Morning Post, 26th September 2022 -- The glossy, coffee-table-sized work is a visual feast but doesn't shirk the exhibition's intellectual side., Eric Twardzik, The Robb Report, The 8 Best Menswear Books of the Year, 19th December 2022 -- #2 in '45 fashion books for style-conscious men to read now', Zak Maoui, GQ, 3rd March 2023
Rosalind McKever is Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the V&A Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator in the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A and Professor in Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. Marta Franceschini is Exhibition Research Assistant at the V&A
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| ISBN 13 | 9781838510114 |
| ISBN 10 | 1838510117 |
| Title | Fashioning Masculinities |
| Author | Rosalind Mckever |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | V & A Publishing |
| Year published | 2022-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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