- Paperback: 334 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 2 edition (12 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300124678
- ISBN-13: 978-0300124675
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #83 in Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Fashion Design
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"'Evans grapples with extremely interesting issues, such as why fashion imagery has become so dark and decadent. Her choice of contemporary fashion imagery - and her juxtaposition of these images with similar themes in art - is brilliant.' Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology 'A compelling line of reasoning here, not to mention some incredibly knockout pictures.' Susan Corrigan, I-D Magazine 'Sensational.' Gemma Hayward, Independent Magazine '... very high production standards... the selection of plates makes up a valuable record and distillation of an end of the century movement.' Robert Radford, The Art Book"
Gemma Hayward, Independent Magazine, 22 November 2003
‘sensational viewing. Well worth the space on your bookshelf’
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On the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz two young men with shaved heads wearing dressing gowns and striped pyjamas with numbers on them strolled down a Paris catwalk. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
The point of writing is to communicate and the author fails to do that, using words and phrases like a smoke screen. This is a subject that interests me and I would like to be able to read about it without recourse to a translator. Five stars for the pictures (although Alexander McQueen dominates) and one star for the verbiage, and that is being generous.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic book for any student who loves Alexander McQueen etc.
It's well written, has some great if slightly small images but is well researched and informative.
It's well written, has some great if slightly small images but is well researched and informative.
4 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Buttoned up against the Great Pretender this text evinces a perfectly loitering cadence as if the socks of its author had been imprinted with the days of the week on which they were to be worn. Nor does the Lacanian rainbow concealed in the slanted ticket-pocket of this stingingly tailored paperback sit easily with a shuffling middlebrow readership. Away with them! Indeed, one is driven to wonder whether the ruffs and cuffs of such a ragmuffin parade as one sees any day in the Charing Cross Road can be construed as a kind of St Martin's doollally, an achingly rumbustious "garment" semiologically fusing (in a kind of pubic perambula) Julia Kristeva's famously lilac and conspicuously deviant nether garments with the abject "underpants" of Humbert Humbert. In the ensuing debate one fact emerges clearly. It is the Name of the Father. And so, perhaps, does Agent Provocateur meet CK in the ante rooms of Celine's howling impostures!
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