Features

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  In conversation: perspectives on Frida Kahlo

  was recorded at the V&A, introduced by Ana Baeza Ruiz, exhibition Research Assistant, featuring Claire…
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  Making her self up – Frida Kahlo's cosmetics

  Adapted from an essay by Claire Wilcox in the V&A book Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, accompanying…
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  About the Woman's Hour Craft Prize

  Clay artist Phoebe Cummings has been named as the winner of the inaugural £10,000 Woman's Hour Craft…
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  The story of Mary Quant make-up

  remembered as 'the most thrilling time': Quant was influenced by her own experiments with make-up – she claimed…
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  An A–Z of Ceramics

  The most recent theory is that they were made with clay imported from Virginia by two of the partners…

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What's On

• Past Event

  Curator Talk: Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

  Join co-curators Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa for a look at the development of this exhibition,…
• Past Event

  Online Talk: Patch Work

  V&A South Kensington

  Senior fashion curator Claire Wilcox’s memoir has been called ‘mesmerising’; ‘enthralling’, and ‘an absolute…
• Past Event

  Thursday Curator Talk: Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

  Join co-curators Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa for a look at the development of this exhibition,…
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  Past Event

  Lunchtime Lecture: Fashioning Masculinities

  V&A South Kensington

  Join Claire Wilcox, co-curator of Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, as she goes behind the…
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  Past Event

  Online Curator Talk: Fashioning Masculinities

  Online

  Join exhibition curators Rosalind McKever and Claire Wilcox as they discuss how this new exhibition celebrates…

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  Restitution and repatriation

  In a small number of cases, these objects are the subject of formal restitution and repatriation claims…

From the Blog

• Blog Post

  Fashion industry insight for students and young people 

  Beginning with an introduction to the Fashioning Masculinities exhibition by curator, Claire Wilcox,…
• Blog Post

  Secrets of the Museum – episode 4 expanded

  podcast, featuring Oriole Cullen, who featured in last night’s episode, and the initiator of the project, Claire…
• Blog Post

  Pandemic Objects: The Sea

  .– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Moon and Sea Each photograph is accompanied by a sea-related text and cumulative…
• Blog Post

  Frida Kahlo: Making Her Up

  Regular meetings took place with the design team, V&A Senior Curator Claire Wilcox and co-curator Circe…
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  We Wear Culture – a new virtual fashion experience

  Clothes are shorthand for being human Claire Wilcox, 2001 From the fusion of fashion with surrealist…