Men’s fashion takes the spotlight this spring when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) presents Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015 (10 April-10 August 2016). “Menswear has undergone revolutions and evolutions in the past 200 years, and it’s been largely neglected [by museums] because womenswear has been preserved better, and there’s more of it,” says Sharon Takeda, the head of the museum’s costume and textile department, who has co-organised the show. It brings together more than 300 objects, from full-body zippered swimwear from the 1910s to a Tom Ford-designed Gucci thong from 1997. Historic garments like an 18th-century calf-contouring stocking prove that women are not the only ones who have used clothes to cinch and shape their bodies.
It’s reigning men in Los Angeles
New show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art focuses on the oft-overlooked history of men's fashion
1 February 2016
