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This suit is from the label's Spring/Summer 2021 collection, designed and made during the period of lockdown in the UK as a result of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Titled ‘The Healing’, the collection was inspired by the context of the pandemic. This suit is part of a trio conceived by Jeffrey to highlight what felt important at that time: Hope, health and community.","physicalDescription":"A boiler suit of black cotton drill with button fastening at the centre back from nape to waist. Five rectangular panels are attached onto the legs, arms and torso with popper fastenings. A headpiece with a matching rectangular panel attached to an adjustable Velcro headband. The rectangular panels are decorated with an applique design and couched wool featuring stylised motifs. The head panel features a face-like design and the torso panel includes the word 'Community' emblazoned across the chest, along with motifs of figures and hands.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY","id":"AUTH411953"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"cotton","id":"AAT14067"},{"text":"Wool","id":"x40131"},{"text":"wool","id":"x40131"},{"text":"velvet","id":"AAT133711"}],"techniques":[{"text":"applique","id":"AAT53646"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cotton, wool, velvet; applique.","categories":[{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2026PN8710","2026PN8711","2026PN8712","2026PN8714","2026PN8713"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES404194"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Headwear","id":"AAT209285"}],[{"text":"Chestpiece","id":"THES414626"}],[{"text":"Arm piece","id":"THES414627"}],[{"text":"Arm piece","id":"THES414627"}],[{"text":"Leg","id":"x38785"}],[{"text":"Leg","id":"x38785"}],[{"text":"Overalls","id":"AAT46178"}],[{"text":"Doll","id":"AAT211087"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2020","earliest":"2020-01-01","latest":"2020-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"Spring/Summer 2021 collection"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchase funded by the Lee Alexander McQueen Fund for Fashion","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"167","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Full suit laid flat (excluding headpiece)","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"64","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Full suit laid flat","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"28","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Headpiece panel","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"39","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Headpiece panel","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"One of trio, this suit is from the label's Spring/Summer 2021 collection, designed and made during the Covid pandemic lockdown in the UK in the summer of 2020, when Jeffrey had to close the label’s studio. Concerned for the brand’s new interns, who had worked hard to get the opportunity of work experience in the studio and now found themselves at home, Jeffrey designed these suits as a craft project that the label’s interns could work on remotely. Jeffrey wished to commemorate what he felt was important at this period: community, health, and hope. Looking to pagan traditions of costume, performance, ritual, and symbolism, he personified these key words into figures.\r\n\r\nThe ‘Community’ suit was made by Eddie Kurnaz. Writing in 2025, Kurnaz remembered the experience and what it meant at the time: “I remember going to pick them up with my mum and then sitting on my bedroom floor for hours each day hand sewing. Zooming in with Charles, Maddie & Rosa to show how we were all doing. I was thankful I had something to do during the lockdown and experience some form on internship. When we saw it was being put up in Dover Street Market, me and Maddie went to go and see it. And I still have the lookbook for this collection and will most likely keep it forever, I do the same with any PR/lookbooks I work on now. It's great to see actual work I've participated on shown in something like that. ⁠It definitely improved my hand sewing skills and was a stepping stone into how a collection/lookbook is curated”.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'Community' suit of cotton drill with applique panels, Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY, Sping/Summer 2021, London","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.47:1-2026","T.47:2-2026","T.47:3-2026","T.47:4-2026","T.47:5-2026","T.47:6-2026","T.47:7-2026","T.47:8-2026"],"accessionNumberNum":"47","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":2026,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-13","recordCreationDate":"2025-11-26","availableToBook":false}}