The Politics of Fashion and Drag

Arts & Ideas

BBC

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Scrumbly Koldewyn remembers the '60s San Francisco theatre scene; Jenny Gilbert & Shahdiha Bari debate environmentalism and fashion at the V&A and Clare Lilley Director of Programmes at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at the use of thread and textiles in art. Plus drag at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London with performers Lavinia Co-op and Rhys Hollis, plus Ben Walters who is researching this history.

The environmental impact of fashion over more than 400 years is examined in the first UK exhibition to look at this topic. That's how the V&A is billing its new show Fashioned From Nature. Jenny Gilbert from De Montfort University visits the display and talks to Shahidha Bari about her research into textiles.

Fashioned from Nature runs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from April 21st to January 27th 2019. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is displaying Beyond Time an installation in the C18th chapel by Chiharu Shiota until September 2nd.

Scrumbly Koldewyn is one of the founding members of the Cockettes, the legendary psychedelic hippie theatre troupe based in San Francisco in the 60s

The tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race has just started to air on Netflix. The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is South London's oldest surviving gay venue and is the UK's first building to be Grade II listed in recognition of its importance to LGBTQ community history.

Producer: Debbie Kilbride

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0:57.7	Hello, we're all style and substance in today's programme.
1:02.2	So put on your free-thinking caps, roll up your sleeves and fix your wig as we rifle through
1:08.1	the closet of arts and ideas. Today we'll be thinking about fashion
1:12.0	as the latest show at the Victorian Albert Museum
1:14.3	explores the relationship between clothes and nature
1:17.3	and as a new installation at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1:20.3	entangles visitors in a web of threads.
1:23.5	Roop, roop, rub, pull drag, race. Music And if you're what you got on the music.
1:38.3	And if you're not familiar with this tune, well, you've probably been dragging your feet.
1:49.0	The cult reality TV series Rupol's Drag Race is now into its 10th season,
1:55.0	proving that lip-sync battles and sequined Catwalk standoffs are a ratings hit.
2:00.2	But as drag goes mainstream, scrumbly coldwin of a legendary troupe the coquettes remembers the avant-gardism
2:01.9	that underpinned it in 1970s San Francisco. And contemporary drag artists and a drag critic
2:07.6	talk me through the politics of performing today at London's Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
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