I saw this today at the National Gallery of Victoria and have to say I was a bit disappointed. It had been billed as
‘the first exhibition to focus on menswear in Australia’ but I thought it was very thin on the ground. The exhibit had big holes in the range of fashion (meant to represent 18
th century to present day) and the links between outfits seemed tenuous. They didn’t even manage to put shoes with all the mannequins- covering some with pairs of paper ‘shoe-masks.’ Maybe they should have outsourced some of the outfits to provide greater depth in the exhibition. That said I really loved the footage they recorded of men talking about fashion. It was refreshingly honest, and demonstrated that men do actually care about what they wear.
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