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A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk

Shaun Cole
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An unprecedented in-depth exploration of the complex interrelationship between high fashion and queer history and culture

From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay.  Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century.  This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.  
 
Contributions by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion – including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson – investigate topics such as the context in which key designers’ lives and works form part of a broader “gay” history; the “archeology” of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery.
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
October 29, 2013
ISBN
0300196709
ISBN 13
9780300196702

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk

Shaun Cole
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
An unprecedented in-depth exploration of the complex interrelationship between high fashion and queer history and culture

From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay.  Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century.  This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.  
 
Contributions by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion – including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson – investigate topics such as the context in which key designers’ lives and works form part of a broader “gay” history; the “archeology” of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery.
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
October 29, 2013
ISBN
0300196709
ISBN 13
9780300196702

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