Fashion at the edge : spectacle, modernity and deathliness / Caroline Evans.

By: Publication details: New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2007.Description: vii, 326 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780300124675 (pbk.) :
  • 0300124678
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22
Summary: Contemporary experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.
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Originally published: 2003.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 310-319.

Contemporary experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.

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