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

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in July 2017. She sits on the editorial board of the journal ''

Fashion Theory ''Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge. It was established in 1997 and covers the study of fashion, including aspects from sociology, art history, consumption studies, an ...

''. She is professor of fashion curation at the

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. She won the 2021

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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''.

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, 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

Living people 1954 births English curators Academics of the University of the Arts London People associated with the Victoria and Albert Museum People educated at Godolphin and Latymer School Alumni of the University of Exeter Alumni of the University of the Arts London British women curators {{fashion-bio-stub