Today’s guest is menswear expert and archivist Andrew Groves. Andrew is a Professor of Fashion Design at the University of Westminster. In 2016 he established the Westminster menswear archive — a world-leading collection of over 2,600 garments. The archive purposefully rejects a hierarchy of design, interspersing workwear, uniforms, and designer garments to challenge the orthodoxy of fashion collections.  

 Andrew is also a valued consultant to the fashion industry. He frequently provides commentary to leading publications, including WWD, i-D, The Guardian, Vogue Business, and The Wall Street Journal.  

 In this episode, we’ll discuss why menswear and workwear are often overlooked by fashion collections — and what a closer examination of them can teach us about how we conceive fashion.