Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between the Wars
Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between the Wars
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Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between the Wars
W032542 | $115.00
Lucy Moyse Ferreira. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2022. Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections.
240 pp. Moderately Illustrated (all b&w). 24 x 16 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781350126282
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.
Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- 1900-1945 -- Costume/Fashion -- Decorative Arts and Design --
W032542 | $115.00
Lucy Moyse Ferreira. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2022. Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections.
240 pp. Moderately Illustrated (all b&w). 24 x 16 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781350126282
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.
Subject Headings: International ; Western Art -- 1900-1945 -- Costume/Fashion -- Decorative Arts and Design --
