A curator of fashion at the V&A for most of her working life, CW uses her experience and sensitivity to clothes to explore how, in her own family’s life, the secrets of clothes measure out time, hopes, fears, gains and losses and yield traces of the ways in which we account for ourselves. This is an original and powerful book.
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978152661439112/11/2020
Categories: 01. Books for Christmas 2020: Biography, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Books for Christmas 2020, Photography & Fashion
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