Book launch "Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion"

Join us for the launch of "Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion" this Tuesday from 6 to 8pm.

This timely book explores how ideas of luxury, waste, and sustainability play out in contemporary fashion.

Features work by iconic designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Maison Margiela, and Issey Miyake, whose radical approaches are surveyed alongside historically-rooted practices like Japanese boro.

Includes new essays by leading scholars and critics such as Caroline Evans, Akiko Fukai, Lou Stoppard, and Sandra Niessen offering decolonial, feminist, and ecological perspectives on fashion, alongside a photographic portfolio by Ellen Sampson highlighting garments shaped by dirt, decay, and transformation.