Man style explores the trends in men’s fashion throughout history, as well as our modern-day contemporary trends. It represents some of the most influential ideas that have pervaded menswear over the past three centuries.
Man style presents a broad survey of menswear from around 1740 to the present. Beginning in the eighteenth century with exquisite brocade and embroidered silk coats, the exhibition then explores the evolution of the modern suit via the elegantly honed lines of the nineteenth-century dandy, examining the rise of tailoring with its focus on perfect cut and fit.
From tradition to transformation, Man style considers changes in proportion, shape, and detail as well as material, color, and pattern, including the more radical influence of sportswear, sub-cultural attire, and streetwear on men’s fashion.
In contemporary menswear design, new and traditional modes of dressing are continually merging to create new definitions of masculinity.
Man Style refers to all the different ideas, concepts, styles, designs, brands, tailoring, and varieties of men clothing and accessories that define the fashion presentation, preferences, colour, personality, outlook, appearance, and lifestyle of men when it comes to their taste and choice, of what they like to wear and how they carry themselves in clothes, accessories, and lifestyle in general.
Drawn from the NGV Collection, the exhibition incorporates clothes, accessories, and paintings.
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/manstyle/
