Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Fashion Today

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Fashion Today is a kaleidoscopic, colourful and provocative survey of the fashion world, from the introduction of Dior's New Look in 1947 to the present day.

This book is a thematic overview of fashion in the widest sense imaginable, ranging from haute couture to street-style, from the one-off to the mass market. It illustrates, with elegance and flair, just how vital and everlasting a part fashion has played in reflecting and influencing twentieth-century attitudes: from the sexual revolution and rise of popular culture in the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1980s and 90s.

Fashion Today places current fashion not only in the contexts of youth, sexuality, fetishism, exoticism and historicism, but also in the contexts of previous fashion movements. It demonstrates dynamically that fashion reflects not only its surroundings and its subjects but ultimately itself.

Aesthetically and intellectually stimulating, this volume is a must-have for anyone who has even the vaguest interest in any aspect of the fashion world today. Its breadth of scope and depth of insight are unprecedented.

Language: English

Pages: 512

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Release: April 08, 2003

ISBN: 0714843342

ISBN 13: 9780714843346

Fashion Today

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Fashion Today is a kaleidoscopic, colourful and provocative survey of the fashion world, from the introduction of Dior's New Look in 1947 to the present day.

This book is a thematic overview of fashion in the widest sense imaginable, ranging from haute couture to street-style, from the one-off to the mass market. It illustrates, with elegance and flair, just how vital and everlasting a part fashion has played in reflecting and influencing twentieth-century attitudes: from the sexual revolution and rise of popular culture in the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1980s and 90s.

Fashion Today places current fashion not only in the contexts of youth, sexuality, fetishism, exoticism and historicism, but also in the contexts of previous fashion movements. It demonstrates dynamically that fashion reflects not only its surroundings and its subjects but ultimately itself.

Aesthetically and intellectually stimulating, this volume is a must-have for anyone who has even the vaguest interest in any aspect of the fashion world today. Its breadth of scope and depth of insight are unprecedented.

Language: English

Pages: 512

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Release: April 08, 2003

ISBN: 0714843342

ISBN 13: 9780714843346

More books from Colin McDowell

Diana Style

The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do

4.3/5 ( ratings)

John Galliano

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Manolo Blahnik

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Man of Fashion: Peacock Males and Perfect Gentlemen with More Than 250 Illustrations, 99 in Color

Jean Paul Gaultier

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Shoes: Fashion And Fantasy

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Drawing Fashion: A Century of Fashion Illustration

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Ralph Lauren: The Man, the Vision, the Style

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Swarovski: Fashion, Performance, Jewelry, and Design

3.8/5 ( ratings)

One Savile Row: A History of the English Gentleman from the Archives of Gieves & Hawkes

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Matthew Williamson

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Dress of the Year

Coats! Max Mara: 55 Years of Italian Fashion

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Dressed to Kill: Sex, Power & Clothes

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Ralph Lauren and the Spirit of America

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Pimlico Companion to Fashion

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Jimmy Choo

4.5/5 ( ratings)

A Woman Of Spirit

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Street Style

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?