ARMOURED
1. Keeping a dark or secret profile. 2. Hardened for the elements; soft-centred. 3. Inviting attack by being prepared for it, provocative. 4. Heavier. 5. Sustaining belief in the inside and the outside, the invulnerable space and the essentially unprotected body. 6. Clothes as noise. 7. Undressing revised.

Photograph by Norbert Schoerner from The Concise Dictionary of Dress publication, published by Violette Editions in association with Artangel. The Concise Dictionary of Dress was at Blythe House from April - June 2010. Installation by Judith Clark, text by Adam Phillips. See here for details.