Archive Research

The Menswear Archive is a research repository and a unique reference source for curators, scholars, designers and industry researchers. The archive has been extensively catalogued for rapid searching and allows for a range of object handling approaches, and methods, giving researchers direct access to design, textiles, patterns etc of unique pieces. Whilst used intensively as […]

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Research Staff

Professor Andrew Groves launched the Westminster Menswear Archive in 2015. Before his academic career Andrew Groves worked as a designer in the fashion industry both under his eponymous label as well as for others, most notably Alexander McQueen. Until the mid-1990s Groves was Alexander McQueen’s senior design assistant. Several examples of Groves’ work are held […]

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