Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive
by: Andrew Groves (Author),Danielle Sprecher(Author)
Publisher:Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publication Date: 16 May 2024
Language:English
Print Length:320 pages
ISBN-10:1350330981
ISBN-13:9781350330986
Book Description
Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and examine both historical garments and the work of their peers.Groves and Sprecher analyse over 140 key garments from the Westminster Menswear Archive, spanning the last 275 years, each brilliantly photographed in close-up detail and annotated with curator commentary, to inspire new generations of designers.Highlights include garments from: A-COLD-WALL*, Ahluwalia, Aitor Throup Studio, Alexander McQueen, Belstaff, Bernhard Willhelm, Burberry, Casely-Hayford, C.P. Company, Carol Christian Poell, Comme des Garçons, Craig Green, Dior Men, Fred Perry, Helmut Lang, Hussein Chalayan, Jean Paul Gaultier, Junya Watanabe, Louis Vuitton, Martine Rose, Meadham Kirchhoff, Nigel Cabourn, Paul Smith, Prada, Stone Island, Umbro, Undercover, Vexed Generation, and Vollebak
About the Author
Review When I met Andrew for the first time in 2017, he told me he wanted to set up the archive, and it was the first time I had heard about a fashion school taking that approach to design education, offering their students the chance to work the same as my father did. It’s a game-changing way to form and shape new designers and develop an alternative way of working. I’m very humbled that Andrew was inspired by my father’s archive, and I’m grateful that he is offering this unprecedented opportunity to a new generation of designers. --Lorenzo Osti, from the ForewordFar more than acting as dormant academic study resource, the archive and this book both play an active role in shaping how students and fashion designers are thinking about the social definitions of masculinity today, and in the future. --Sarah Mower MBE, fashion critic, VogueAndrew Groves and Danielle Sprecher open the door on tantalising glimpse of the significant collection of the Westminster Menswear Archive. Focussed essays and lavish illustrations make this book a truly valuable insight into a wide range of historic and contemporary, designer and utilitarian menswear garments. --Dr Shaun Cole, Associate Professor in Fashion, Winchester School of Art, UK
About the Author Andrew Groves is Professor of Fashion Design at the University of Westminster, UK and Director of the Westminster Menswear Archive, which he founded in 2016. It is the world's only publicly accessible menswear archive, containing over 2000 examples of some of the most important and menswear garments covering the last 120 years. Danielle Sprecher is the curator of the Westminster Menswear Archive at the University of Westminster, UK. Her PhD investigated the design and making of British menswear by the Leeds tailoring industry and its relationship with men's fashion between the 1940s and 1980. Her research explores everyday men's dress with a focus on object-based research. She has worked as a curator of historic dress and textile collections for several museums in the United Kingdom.
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