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Claire Wilcox

Claire Wilcox

British curator, academic and author

Claire Wilcox (born 1954)[1] is senior curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[2] She received an honorary doctorate in art and design from Middlesex University in July 2017.[3] She sits on the editorial board of the journal Fashion Theory.[4] She is professor of fashion curation at the London College of Fashion. She won the 2021 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Patch Work.[5]

Curated exhibitions

  • Radical Fashion (2001)
  • Vivienne Westwood (2004)
  • The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957 (2007)
  • From Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s (2013)

Selected publications

Authored

  • A Century of Bags. Apple Press, 1998.
  • Modern Fashion in Detail. Victoria Albert Museum, London, 1998.
  • The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-War British Textiles and Fashion. Victoria Albert Museum, London, 2012.
  • V&A Gallery of Fashion. Victoria Albert Museum, London, 2013.
  • Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020.

Edited catalogues

  • Radical Fashion (V&A, 2001)
  • Vivienne Westwood (V&A, 2004)
  • The Golden Age of Couture (V&A, 2007)
  • Alexander McQueen (V&A, 2015)

References

  1. [1]
    "Claire Wilcox, Curator of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A in Discussion with Brian Green". dulwichsociety.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  2. [2]
    "Professor Claire Wilcox - Staff Research Profiles A-Z - UAL". arts.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  3. [3]
    "V&A curator, responsible for Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition, honoured at Middlesex University graduation (From Times Series)". times-series.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  4. [4]
    "Claire Wilcox - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting". showstudio.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  5. [5]
    Comerford, Ruth (2021-08-05). "Wilcox wins PEN Ackerley Prize for 'vivid' memoir Patch Work". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-05.


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