Danger in the Path of Chic : Violence in Fashion between the Wars Paperback / softback
by Lucy Moyse (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK) Ferreira
Part of the Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections series
Paperback / softback
Description
During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed.
Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape.
In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 31 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350275508
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 31 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350275508
