A life, surely?

Jenny Diski

  • The Ossie Clark Diaries edited by Henrietta Rous
    Bloomsbury, 402 pp, £20.00, October 1998, ISBN 0 7475 3901 4

Ossie Clark, for those who never hankered after his confections in the late Sixties and early Seventies, was a dress designer. His designs are in museums of fashion quite as legitimately as a gold necklace from ancient Egypt is displayed in the British Museum, or the uniform of the Light Brigade is illustrated in the Imperial War Museum. Each item tells us something about its time and place, certainly not everything, but something. Nevertheless, they become a good deal more vivid and more informative when we are given a living context for the artefacts. The most exquisitely chipped stone arrowhead is better appreciated if we know something of the life of its maker.

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Vol. 21 No. 4 · 18 February 1999 » Jenny Diski » A life, surely? (print version)
Pages 31-32 | 3038 words