Catalog of an exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery
Contents
Foreword: Dandy style / Christopher Breward -- Director's preface / Alistair Hudson -- Introduction / Shaun Cole and Miles Lambert -- Creative collecting: how museums acquire men's fashion / Miles Lambert -- The life stories of men's clothes / Ben Whyman -- The devil is in the detail: why men still wear suits / Joshua M. Bluteau -- Painting men's style: portraying an image / Shaun Cole, Miles Lambert and Rebecca Milner -- Performing the dandy / Kate Dorney -- Extravagance and flamboyance: decorated men's fashion / MIles Lamber -- Casual subversion / Shaun Cole -- Contemporary British menswear: hybridity, flux and globalisation / Jay McCauley Bowstead
