A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk

Author:   Bonnie English
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781845203429


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 July 2007
Format:   Paperback
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A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk


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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.

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Author:   Bonnie English
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781845203429


ISBN 10:   1845203429
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 July 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

1. The Interplay of Commerce and Culture before the Great War 2. The Democratisation of Fashion: Machine Age Aesthetics 3. Framing Fashion: The Artists Who Made Clothes 4. Fashioning the American Body 5. Postmodernism and Fashion 6. Anti-Fashion 7. Japanese Conceptual Fashion 8. Globalisation and E-Fashion

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'Lively, accessible, highly informative, and drawing on an impressive range of both Eastern and Western examples, this is a unique contribution to fashion history.' Becky E. Conekin, London College of Fashion


'Lively, accessible, highly informative, and drawing on an impressive range of both Eastern and Western examples, this is a unique contribution to fashion history.' Becky E. Conekin, London College of Fashion


Author Information

Bonnie English is Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

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