Claire Wilcox
Curator
Claire Wilcox is the senior curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she is responsible for the 20th century and contemporary dress collections. She received an honorary doctorate in art and design from Middlesex University in July 2017. She is also a professor of fashion curation at London College of Fashion.
Her curated exhibitions include Radical Fashion (2001), and The Golden Age of Couture (2007). She was also the lead curator of the redisplay of the V&A’s permanent fashion collection (2012) and originating curator (V&A) for the Europeana Digital Fashion Project. In 2015, she curated the landmark exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.
In 1999, Wilcox devised the popular live Fashion in Motion series in which contemporary designers present their collections to the public in a catwalk show in the setting of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Over 50 designers have showcased their work at Fashion in Motion events including Phillip Treacy, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and Jenny Packham.
Wilcox has published widely and her titles include: Modern Fashion in Detail (V&A, 1998); A Century of Bags (Apple Press, 1998) and The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-War British Textiles and Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2012). She has also published catalogues to accompany the exhibitions Radical Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001), Vivienne Westwood (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004) and The Golden Age of Couture (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007).
She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and sits on the editorial board of the journal Fashion Theory.
Claire Wilcox is the senior curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she is responsible for the 20th century and contemporary dress collections. She received an honorary doctorate in art and design from Middlesex University in July 2017. She is also a professor of fashion curation at London College of Fashion.
Her curated exhibitions include Radical Fashion (2001), and The Golden Age of Couture (2007). She was also the lead curator of the redisplay of the V&A’s permanent fashion collection (2012) and originating curator (V&A) for the Europeana Digital Fashion Project. In 2015, she curated the landmark exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.
In 1999, Wilcox devised the popular live Fashion in Motion series in which contemporary designers present their collections to the public in a catwalk show in the setting of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Over 50 designers have showcased their work at Fashion in Motion events including Phillip Treacy, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and Jenny Packham.
Wilcox has published widely and her titles include: Modern Fashion in Detail (V&A, 1998); A Century of Bags (Apple Press, 1998) and The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-War British Textiles and Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2012). She has also published catalogues to accompany the exhibitions Radical Fashion (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001), Vivienne Westwood (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004) and The Golden Age of Couture (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007).
She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and sits on the editorial board of the journal Fashion Theory.