The Concise Dictionary of Dress online

Judith Clark & Adam Phillips’ extraordin­ary pro­ject at Blythe House has now closed, but The Concise Dictionary of Dress lives on through new, spe­cially com­mis­sioned mul­ti­me­dia con­tent on the Artangel web­site, and a beau­ti­ful book pub­lished by Robert Violette.

Our online area for The Concise Dictionary of Dress includes:

• Conformist: story of a defin­i­tion: a short film about one of the install­a­tions, a William Morris-influenced piece that has now been acquired by the V&A. [Click to watch]
• A com­plete slideshow of Judith Clark’s install­a­tions and Adam Phillips’ defin­i­tions. [Click to view]
• An inter­view with Adam Phillips: the psy­cho­ana­lyst dis­cusses the mean­ing of clothes and the styl­ing of dic­tion­ar­ies. [Click to listen]
• The Artangel 500s: short pieces by six selec­ted writers. [Click to read]

Click here to browse the pro­ject sec­tion in full.

via Artangel | The Concise Dictionary of Dress online.

CREASED
1. The fold fixed. 2. The line designed by use. 3. Spread for con­ver­sa­tion, some­times with laughter.

Photograph by Norbert Schoerner from The Concise Dictionary of Dress pub­lic­a­tion, pub­lished by Violette Editions in asso­ci­ation with Artangel. The Concise Dictionary of Dress was at Blythe House from April — June 2010. Installation by Judith Clark, text by Adam Phillips. See here for details.