It’s reigning men in Los Angeles

Men’s fashion takes the spotlight this spring when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) presents Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015 (10 April-10 August 2016). “Menswear has undergone revolutions and evolutions in the past 200 years, and it’s been largely neglected [by museums] because womenswear has been preserved better, and there’s more of it,” says Sharon Takeda, the head of the museum’s costume and textile department, who has co-organised the show. It brings together more than 300 objects, from full-body zippered swimwear from the 1910s to a Tom Ford-designed Gucci thong from 1997. Historic garments like an 18th-century calf-contouring stocking prove that women are not the only ones who have used clothes to cinch and shape their bodies.