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Fashion at the edge : spectacle, modernity and deathliness / Caroline Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Paperback editionDescription: vii, 326 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300124675
Other title:
  • Spectacle, modernity and deathliness
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 391.201 EVA 23 13425
Contents:
1. History -- 2. Haunting -- 3. Spectacle -- 4. Phantasmagoria -- 5. Glamour -- 6. Cruelty -- 7. Deathliness -- 8. Disconnection -- 9. Trauma -- 10. Dereliction -- 11. Exploration -- 12. Modernity.
Summary: "Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alientation, and decay. This ... publication offers an unexpected discussion of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties ... Fashion at the Edge considers a range of groundbreaking fashion in ... depth and detail, including the works of such designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Viktor and Rolf and Martin Margiela"-- Page 2 of cover.
Item type: Reference
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Reference Marium Abdulla Library Reference Textile 391.201 EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 13425

Previous edition: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.

1. History -- 2. Haunting -- 3. Spectacle -- 4. Phantasmagoria -- 5. Glamour -- 6. Cruelty -- 7. Deathliness -- 8. Disconnection -- 9. Trauma -- 10. Dereliction -- 11. Exploration -- 12. Modernity.

"Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alientation, and decay. This ... publication offers an unexpected discussion of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties ... Fashion at the Edge considers a range of groundbreaking fashion in ... depth and detail, including the works of such designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Viktor and Rolf and Martin Margiela"-- Page 2 of cover.

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