A queer history of fashion : from the closet to the catwalk / edited by Valerie Steele.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 248 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 27808ISBN: 0300196709 (hbk.) :; 9780300196702 (hbk.) :Other title: Q [Cover title]Subject(s): Fashion design -- History | Fashion designers -- Biography | Gay men -- Biography | Clothing and dress -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 746.92 QUE LOC classification: TT507 | .Q62 2013Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An unprecedented in-depth exploration of the complex interrelationship between high fashion and queer history and culture
From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.
Contributions by some of the world's most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion - including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson - investigate topics such as the context in which key designers' lives and works form part of a broader "gay" history; the "archeology" of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich (which inspired Yves Saint Laurent's "Le Smoking") to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery.
Includes bibliographical references.
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