A cultural history of fashion in the 20th century : from the catwalk to the sidewalk / by Bonnie English
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2007Description: 178p. ill.[some b/w]; 24cm001: 11524ISBN: 9781845203429; 1845203429Subject(s): Fashion - History | Clothing and dressDDC classification: 391.00904 ENGItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The twentieth century saw the effective end of haute couture, the rise of pret a porter and, finally, the triumph of street fashion. A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century unravels the complexities and contradictions behind these changes to chart the history of modern fashion. What caused the demise of haute couture in the twentieth century? What does the 'democratization' of fashion actually mean? Which key designers bridged the gap between 'couture', with its associations of elite class and taste, and 'street style', a product of tribalism and of popular culture and protest? If fashion imitates art and art imitates life, does life imitate fashion - do we wear the clothes or do the clothes wear us? Setting fashion within its social, cultural and artistic context, A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century presents an engaging history of the interplay between commerce and culture, technology and aesthetics, popular culture and pastiche, and fashion and anti-fashion.
Includes index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- List of Illustrations (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 The Interplay of Commerce and Culture Before the First World War (p. 5)
- 2 The Democratization of Fashion: Machine Age Aesthetics (p. 28)
- 3 Framing Fashion: The Artists Who Made Clothes (p. 43)
- 4 Fashioning the American Body (p. 62)
- 5 Postmodernism and Fashion (p. 76)
- 6 Anti-fashion (p. 100)
- 7 Japanese Conceptual Fashion (p. 117)
- 8 Globalization and E-fashion (p. 136)
- Conclusion (p. 153)
- Notes (p. 157)
- Bibliography (p. 163)
- Index (p. 170)
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