Christopher Breward

Christopher Breward (born September 12, 1965 in Great Britain ) is a British cultural historian , university professor and author .

Life

Breward studied at the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art and the Royal College of Art in London . He then worked at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art before being appointed visiting professor of history at the London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts London . He then was Assistant Director of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and was appointed first principal to the newly established Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 . At the same time he is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh .

Breward currently advises both the UK's Economics and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council , both of which are based in Swindon, Wiltshire , England . He is Governor of the Pasold Institute and one of the Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh .

Breward has been Director of Collection and Research at the Scottish National Gallery since autumn 2017 .

Honorary Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy , Edinburgh.

Fashion . Oxford History Project, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England 2003, ISBN 0-19-284030-4 .
Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis . Berg Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-85973-792-7 .
Ed. With others: Swinging Sixties . A & C Black, London 2006, ISBN 1-85144-484-X .
as publisher: British Design: Tradition and Modernity after 1948 . Bloomberg 2012.
Exhibition catalog: Utopian Bodies. Fashion looks forward . Liljevalcks Gallery, Stockholm 2012.
The suit. Form, function and style . Reaction Books, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-780235233 .

personal data
SURNAME	Breward, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British cultural historian, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Great Britain