Man has an invisible blanket archive#
Man has an invisible blanket series#

Company, Fakescum, Ahluwalia, Liam Hodges, Mulberry, Raeburn, Christopher Kane, Master-piece, Huntsman, JW Anderson, Levi's, Liberty, Louis Vuitton, Manchester City FC, New & Lingwood, Off-White, Paul & Shark, Paul Smith, Sunspel, Turnbull & Asser, Vivienne Westwood, and WAWWA.Īlongside the main exhibition will be a photographic presentation titled: Undercover. The exhibition features examples from Adidas, Balenciaga, BoohooMAN, Burberry, C.P. While these masks appear to be non-gendered, their design, marketing, and wearing reveal long-running narratives within menswear concerned with ideas of protection, risk, and masculinity. It will explore how these ordinary objects have been transformed from their medical origins to become a highly desirable fashion accessory produced by companies ranging from BoohooMAN to Louis Vuitton.

As masks became mandatory, this shifted to labels developing and manufacturing face coverings for their own customers. Brands responded quickly to support the global effort to produce PPE for medical personnel. It will examine how rapidly the fashion industry adapted production, manufacturing, and online marketing to meet changing consumer demands. The exhibition will present 52 unique face covers arranged in chronological order. The simple cloth face covering, which appears to be an unassuming and uncomplicated object, has quickly become a symbolic and contentious artefact. Opening on 11th May 2021 (one year on from when the UK government first advised people to wear face coverings in enclosed public spaces), the exhibition will explore how masks have evolved from being a functional PPE object in short supply, to becoming an everyday object worn by millions. Undercover - From Necessity to Luxury: The Evolution of Face Coverings During COVID-19

Man has an invisible blanket series#

Company and a series of photographs by photographer Neil Bedford as part of the Portrait Youth project led by staff from the Manchester Metropolitan University's Manchester Fashion Institute. The exhibition also featured a series of paintings by Adil Amin depicting young Asian men from Blackburn wearing C.P. Company magazine that was first published in 1985 and pioneered a new approach to fashion marketing as it exclusively contained the brand’s seasonal promotion material presented as a men’s fashion magazine. Finally, there is a display of 12 issues of the iconic C.P. Another cabinet explores the various technical accessories that were integral to the garments from the Urban Protection range from the late 1990s. These include early examples of the brands' knitwear and outerwear with accompanying press books.

Man has an invisible blanket archive#

Company, the Westminster Menswear Archive presented an archive selection celebrating the brand’s 50th anniversary with a display in Darwen Library as part of the British Textile Biennial.Ī series of cabinets present a range of artefacts from across the decades from C.P. CURATED BY PROFESSOR ANDREW GROVES AND DR DANIELLE SPRECHER