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Fashion at the Edge by Caroline Evans
Category: Fiction
Recent experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This intriguing 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. Car ...Show more
Fashion at the Edge - Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness by Caroline Evans
Category: Fashion | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation and decay. This seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties ...Show more
House of Viktor & Rolf by EVANS Caroline
Category: Fashion
The first major overview of the duo's career. Includes 200 images by such renowned photographers as Herb Ritts and Juergen Teller.
Isabella Blow - Fashion Galore! by Caroline Evans
Category: Fashion
A beautifully photographed insider's look at the highly influential personal style and wardrobe of Isabella Blow, one of fashion's most courageous, outrageous, and imaginative muses. Isabella Blow was said to have been a one-off of her own creation in a world of copycats. She had a gift for spotting fas ...Show more
The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900-1929 by Caroline Evans
Category: Fashion
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. "The Mechanical Smile" traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and th ...Show more
Time in Fashion - Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities by Caroline Evans (Editor); Alessandra Vaccari (Editor)
Category: Fashion
Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised between the past and the future, fashion's relationship with time is unorthodox. Rather than considering time ...Show more
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