Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion

This episode celebrates the opening of an exhibition at Charleston's new museum in Lewes, Sussex. The exhibition is titled Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion and is running until January 7th 2025.

In order to discuss the Bloomsbury Group and their innovative approach to clothing, Karina is joined by the exhibition's curator, Charlie Porter, and Woolf and fashion scholar Claire Nicholson.

Charlie is a writer, fashion critic and curator. He has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, GQ, Luncheon, i-D and Fantastic Man, and has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his time. Porter co-runs the London queer rave Chapter 10, and is a trustee of the Friends of Arnold Circus, where he is also a volunteer gardener. He is the author of What Artists Wear and of a book inspired by his work with Charleston, titled Bring No Clothes.

Claire has taught English in Cambridge for many years. Her interest in fashion history was combined with literary analysis in her dissertation In Woolf’s Clothing: Clothes and Fashion in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction. She is Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society.

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