ISBN:
9780755699278
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 144 Seiten)
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DDC:
391.00904
Keywords:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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Fashion / Social aspects
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Fashion / 20th century / History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western culture that is both enticing and alienating, flaunting capitalism's euphoric emblems of glamour and success but also representing the underside of modern life. In the 1970s, photographers like Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton set models against backdrops of tarnished glamour; in the 1990s Alexander McQueen and John Galliano created decadent femmes fatales whose sexual allure was equally tempting and threatening. Rebecca Arnold explores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradict
Note:
Online Ausgabe erschienen bei Bloomsbury Collections: 2019
DOI:
10.5040/9780755699278
URL:
URL des Erstveröffentlichers
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