Dr. Shaun Cole

Editorial Board Member

Winchester School of Art 

Dr. Shaun Cole is Associate Professor in Fashion at Winchester School of Art. He was formerly Associate Dean of Postgraduate Communities at London College of Fashion and Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he curated exhibitions including Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996), Dressing the Male (1999), Black British Style (2004), and Volume (2007). He was consultant on the exhibitions A Queer History of Fashion (FIT, New York) and Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s (V&A, London). He has lectured and published extensively on men's fashion and queer style and his publications include Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Men’s Dress in the Twentieth Century (2000), The Story of Men's Underwear (2010), and co-editor of Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013). He is currently working on an exhibition on men’s historic and contemporary fashion with Manchester Art Gallery.⁣