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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Fashion Stories: Boy with a Pearl Earring
Description: "Delight in disorder" was celebrated in a poem by Robert Herrick (1591-1674) and the long hair, flamboyant dress and embrace of earrings that made up Cavalier style has continued to exert influence as a gender fluid look. Lauren Working's essay considers examples ranging from Van Dyck portraits and plays by Aphra Behn to the advertising for the exhibition called Fashioning Masculinities which runs at the Victoria and Albert museum this spring.Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear is at the V&A from March 19th 2022.
Radio 3 broadcast a series of Essays from New Generation Thinkers exploring Masculinities...