BRICKS Virtual Book Club: Date Postponed til Monday 25th August
We’re postponing our next virtual BRICKS Book Club meeting til Monday 25th August, and starting a new Whatsapp book club group to chat as you read.
Our BRICKS Book Club pick for July is ‘Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano’ by Dana Thomas. In ‘Gods and Kings’, fashion critic Thomas chronicles the legendary designers’ rise and falls from the industry, unpacks how high fashion has changed from the 90s to now, and sharing insights into how art has suffered at the hands of economic demands.
From the 90s to now, everyone in fashion knows their names: Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. After mirroring origins at CSM to each launching their eponymous labels and heading-up some of fashion’s biggest luxury houses, McQueen exploded onto the fashion scene for his dark, subversive tailored designs unpacking controversial themes on the runway until his passing in 2010. Meanwhile, Galliano gained a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative designers until in 2011, when an antisemetic and racist video surfaced resulting in his complete dismissal from the industry until recent years.
We’re postponing this meeting til Monday 25th August at 7pm BST / 2pm ET. Join us at our virtual Zoom club meeting to discuss the book and chat with other emerging creatives, and some special guests from the fashion industry who will be joining.
Additionally, after reviewing our efforts to grow the community over the past 6 months, we have decided to leave our BRICKS Book Club Community Discord (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) behind and are switching the group chat over to Whatsapp. If you’d like to join to chat along while you read, please fill out this Google form here (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
Tickets are available to purchase for £5 on Eventbrite (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), and BRICKS Learner Platform members can attend for free by adding the free ticket discount code available via Steady. Sign up for your 30-day free trial to join us next month!
For more information on the BRICKS Book Club and to access your free ticket discount code, see our previous Book Club post (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
