A Major Men’s Fashion Exhibition Is Coming to the V&A

It’s honest to say that investigations into the cultural evolution of menswear have been couple and significantly between, even neglected, in comparison to individuals of its feminine counterpart. The V&A Museum on the other hand, has determined it is superior time to delve into the intriguing history of masculine gown, announcing a main new demonstrate that will explore menswear’s “power, artistry and diversity”. Fashioning Masculinities: The Artwork of Menswear will explore the techniques in which designers, tailors and artists have manufactured and executed masculinity, “and unpicked it at the seams” through the hundreds of years. It will celebrate a breadth of masculine self-expression and dressing past the binary.

Opening in March 2022, the blockbuster exhibition claims 100 seems and 100 artworks spread thematically throughout 3 gallery areas. Alongside historical treasures from the museum’s archives and classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings, photography and movie, the exhibit will exhibit landmark creations by legendary designers and emerging stars like Craig Inexperienced, Gucci, Grace Wales Bonner, and Raf Simons. The display will also display iconic outfits worn by cultural figures this kind of as David Bowie, Marlene Dietrich, Harry Models, and Billy Porter, and contemporary artworks and pictures by the likes of Sofonisba Anguissola, Joshua Reynolds, Robert Longo and Omar Victor Diop. 

“Masculine vogue is taking pleasure in a period of unparalleled creative imagination,” say Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever, co-curators of Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear. “It has lengthy been a effective mechanism for encouraging conformity or expressing individuality. Alternatively than a linear or definitive historical past, this is a journey throughout time and gender. The exhibition will provide alongside one another historic and contemporary appears to be like with art that reveals how masculinity has been executed. This will be a celebration of the masculine wardrobe, and everybody is invited to sign up for in.”

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear will be at the V&A Museum from 19 March – 6 November 2022.