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British curator, academic and author

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

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. "Claire Wilcox, Curator of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the V&A in Discussion with Brian Green". dulwichsociety.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  2. "Professor Claire Wilcox - Staff Research Profiles A-Z - UAL". arts.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  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. "Claire Wilcox - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film and Live Fashion Broadcasting". showstudio.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  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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