Ms Verity Wilson

Verity Wilson worked for 25 years at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London as a curator in the Far Eastern Department. Her area of expertise is East Asian textiles and dress and she has published widely in this field.  Her companion volumes, Chinese Dress and Chinese Textiles describe and decode the eclectic holdings of the V&A, and the co-authored Dress in Detail from around the World brings to light the many narratives embedded in garments from across the globe and now in the museum’s collection.

She continues to write and teach and is the editor of the peer-reviewed dress studies journal Costume.   She teaches for the V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design MA. Another strand to her work centres around dressing up and fancy dress, and she is in the process of  planning a book around these topics. A proposed exhibition for the Bodleian Library new exhibition space about the history of dress is in its early planning stages.