Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive
Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and examine both historical garments and the work of their peers.
With exclusive access to over 120 key garments from the Westminster Menswear Archive, spanning the last 275 years, each piece is brilliantly photographed in close-up detail and annotated with curator commentary, to inspire new generations of designers.
Highlights include garments from: A-COLD-WALL*, Ahluwalia, Aitor Throup Studio, Alexander McQueen, Belstaff, Bernhard Willhelm, Burberry, Casely-Hayford, C.P. Company, Carol Christian Poell, Comme des Garçons, Craig Green, Dior Men, Fred Perry, Helmut Lang, Hussein Chalayan, Jean Paul Gaultier, Junya Watanabe, Louis Vuitton, Martine Rose, Meadham Kirchhoff, Nigel Cabourn, Paul Smith, Prada, Stone Island, Umbro, Undercover, Vexed Generation, and Vollebak.
Andrew Groves is Professor of Fashion Design at the University of Westminster, UK, and the Director of the Westminster Menswear Archive which he established in 2016. It houses over 2500 examples of some of the most significant menswear garments and is used daily by industry and students to inform their design practice.
Danielle Sprecher is the curator of the Westminster Menswear Archive at the University of Westminster, UK. She is a historian with a focus on men’s clothing and fashion and has worked as a curator of historic dress and textile collections for museums in the United Kingdom.