ArtSpam Favourites: July 2022

This month it’s all about fashion!!!!!!! from ‘Shaping Masculinities’ at the V&A to looking at the leaps and bounds Africa Fashion has made on the mainstream stage (okay western sphere of mainstream. African fashion has always been mainstream) Both have been amazing to see and both haven’t always focused on femininity, but what gender means and what and how we define ‘Fashion’! So here is this months #ArtSpam Favourites for July 2022!!!!

1. ‘Kwame Nkrumah’ (Neck Ornament) Still I Rise Collection 2019, Accra, Ghana. Aphina Sakyi. From the ‘Africa Fashion’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

2. ‘Sick-Hagemeyer Shop Assistant with Bottles, Taken as Colour Guide’ 1971, Accra, Ghana. James Barnor.From the ‘Africa Fashion’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

3. ‘Dress, Kente’ 1996, Accra, Ghana, Kofi Asah. From the ‘Africa Fashion’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

4. ‘The Birth of Buddha’ AD 1-100, Ancient Gandhara, Pakistan at the V&A

5. ‘Laceing a Dandy’ 1819, London From the ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

6. ‘Suit and Cloak worn by Billy Porter’ 2018, New York USA, Randi Rahm From the ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

7. ‘Ensemble’ 2021, Italy, Edward Crutchley From the ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

8. ‘2nd Lieut Gilbert S M Insall, VC, MC, RFC’ 1919, Edward Newling From the ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

9. ‘Edward James’ 1931 Cecil Beaton, London. From the ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London

10. ‘Dress Worn by Billy Porter’ 2019, USA Christian Siriano. From the ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ exhibition at the V&A Museum, London