Danger in the path of chic : violence in fashion between the wars / Lucy Moyse Ferreira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferreira, Lucy Moyse, author.

Series:

Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--Symbolic aspects--History.

Costume.

Fashion--History--20th century.

Fashion.

Violence in art--History.

Violence in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London. England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

text file

HTML

Summary:

"During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Assault

3. Fragmentation

4. Eroticism

5. Absence

6. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-225) and index.

ISBN:

9781350126312

1350126314

9781350126305

1350126306

9781350126299

1350126292

OCLC:

1238134062