Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 144 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857718398
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1417543892
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9780755699278
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9781417543892
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9781860645556
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9780857718396
Content:
Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One:Status, Power and Display; Excess; Cruelty and Power; Simplicity; Imperfection; Eco; Two:Violence and Provocation; Ultra Style / Ultra Violence; Gangsters; Gangstas; Skinheads; Punks; Heroin Chic; Decadence and Decay; Three:The Eroticised Body; Underwear as Outerwear; Eroticism; Fetish; The Brutalised Body; Flesh; Skin; Four:Gender and Subversion; New Woman; Dressing Up:Woman; Dressing Up:Man; Unisex; Androgyny; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.
Content:
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:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-138) and index -- Filmography: page 139
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1860645550
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813529034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Arnold, Rebecca Fashion, desire and anxiety London : I.B. Tauris, 2001 ISBN 1860645550
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813529034
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755699278
