Drama of the Gowns
Lisa Cohen, 22 April 2021
Patch Work: A Life amongst Clothes
by Claire Wilcox.
Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £16.99, November 2020,978 1 5266 1439 1 Show More
by Claire Wilcox.
Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £16.99, November 2020,
“... feelings that accompany it – unassuaged grief, sharp pleasure, informed care – is the stuff of Claire Wilcox’s Patch Work: A Life amongst Clothes. A series of meditations on her work as curator of clothing and textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Patch Work is both a reverie and a valorisation of close observation, an eccentric personal ... ”