Fashioning Masculinities

The book contains short, savvy essays exploring aspects of masculine fashion. And it is beautiful: full of crisply rendered images of paintings, photojournalism and photographs of garments from the V&A's unparalleled collection. Richard Thompson Ford, South China Morning Post, 26th September 2022 -- The glossy, coffee-table-sized work is a visual feast but doesn't shirk the exhibition's intellectual side., Eric Twardzik, The Robb Report, The 8 Best Menswear Books of the Year, 19th December 2022 -- #2 in '45 fashion books for style-conscious men to read now', Zak Maoui, GQ, 3rd March 2023

Rosalind McKever is Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the V&A Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator in the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A and Professor in Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. Marta Franceschini is Exhibition Research Assistant at the V&A

Director's Foreword, Tristram Hunt -- Introduction, Rosalind McKever -- UNDRESSED -- Marble Marvels and Classical Ideals, Susan Goldsmith -- A Polished Impression, Alun Withey -- Behind Clothes: Fashioning Men at the Museum, Satish Padiyar -- A Developed Muscle: Photographing Physique, Zorian Clayton -- Underpinnings: The Next Best Thing to Naked, Shaun Cole -- OVERDRESSED - Young Englishmen Behaving Badly (and Dressing Outrageously), Susan North - A Well-Turned Leg, Elisabeth Gernerd - Fine and Dandy, Claire Wilcox - Braggadocio: A Brief History of Swagger, Elizabeth Currie - Orlando as a Boyette, Rosalind McKever - Sartorial Encounters: The Kimono and Masculine Style, Anna Jackson - A Hibiscus Print, Cher Potter -- REDRESSED -- Monochrome Man, Christopher Breward -- A Full Monty, Miriam Phelan -- A Suitable Hat, Oriole Cullen -- Black, British and Stylish, Ekow Eshun -- A Tailored Sari, Avalon Fortheringham -- A Broken Suit, Marta Franceschini -- The Jacket Eroded, Borrowed, Evolved, Alastair O'Neill -- What Ever Happened to Contemporary Menswear?, Charlie Porter -- Epilogue, Gus-Casely Hayford -- Fashioning the Future -- Afterword, Virgil Abloh