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Fashioning Masculinities: Undressed

published on 8 April 2022

The first gallery in the V&A's Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear exhibition explores the state of undress.

Co-curator Claire Wilcox introduces the concept of the ideal male body which emerged in antiquity, and analyses key designs by Jean Paul Gaultier (S/S 96 trompe l'oeil collection), JW Anderson, Ludovic de Saint Sernin and Virgil Abloh for OFF-WHITE, describing how the male form has been re-fashioned over time.

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear runs from 19 March - 6 November, 2022.

The first gallery in the V&A's Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear exhibition explores the state of undress.

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