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Bring no clothes : Bloomsbury and the philosophy of fashion / Charlie Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Charlie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bloomsbury group.
- Artists--Clothing.
- Artists.
- Fashion and art--History--20th century.
- Fashion and art.
- Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Clothing and dress.
- Physical Description:
- 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Particular Books, 2023.
- Summary:
- In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group, the collective of artists and thinkers who were in the vanguard of a social and sartorial revolution. Each of them offers fresh insight into the constraints and possibilities of fashion today: from the stifling repression of E. M. Forster's top buttons to the creativity of Vanessa Bell's wayward hems; from the sheer pleasure of Ottoline Morrell's lavish dresses to the clashing self-consciousness of Virginia Woolf's orange stockings. As Porter carefully unpicks what they wore and how they wore it, we see how clothing can be a means of artistic, intellectual and sexual liberation, or, conversely, a tool for patriarchal control. Travelling through libraries, archives, attics and studios, Porter uncovers fresh evidence about his subjects, revealing them in a thrillingly intimate, vivid new light. And, as he is inspired to begin making his own clothing, his perspective on fashion - and on life - starts to change. In the end, he shows, we should all 'bring no clothes,' embracing a new philosophy of living: one which activates the connections between the way we dress and the way we think, act and love -- Publisher.
- Contents:
- Virginia Woolf
- The Dreadnaught Hoax and the visual language of power
- Vanessa Bell
- Measuring wardrobes, or, where did they put all their stuff?
- Duncan Grant
- The Apostles, and conversations about style
- E. M. Forster
- Two Stracheys and Carrington, or, the veil of clothing
- John Maynard Keynes
- What the Bloomsbury servants wore
- Lady Ottoline Morell
- Bloomsbury, fashion, philosophy.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0241602750
- 9780241602751
- OCLC:
- 1356501856
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