Fashion Today
Author(s): Colin McDowell
From Dior's New Look to Belgian deconstructionism, and British eclecticism, fashion since 1947 has gone through an array of changes, Each chapter of this book deals with a particular aspect of fashion obsession, from elegance to fetishism, and from haute-couture to street-style.
Product Information
New Look onwards; youth revolution; designer as superstar; modelling the image; the medium and the message; selling the dream; rediscovering elegance; lure of retro; ethnic influences; fantasy and role play; fetishism and the shaped body; foreseeing the future; fashion and protest.
General Fields
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- : phaido
- : phaido
- : 3.447
- : 290mm X 250mm X 57mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Colin McDowell
- : Hardback
- : 391.009045
- : 512
- : 500 colour and 50 b&w illustrations, biographies, chronology, bibliography, index