This is an up-beat look at street fashion from 1940 to today, celebrating some 40 different styletribes, which will accompany a major exhibition on Streetstyle at the Victoria and Albert Museum in November 1994. We see how the styletribes interweave and evolve - the American Modernists of the early 1950s living on in the English Mods of the early 1960s, who became the Hard Mods, then the Skinheads, then the Ois!; while the 1950s Folkies became first the 1970s Hippies and then the New Age Travellers of the 1980s and 1990s. But for today's fashion-conscious young people, this is not all ancient history: Streetstyle offers the 1990s fashion world a supermarket of styles from which to pick and mix. Anyone is free to be part Beatnik, part Raver, or part Punk, part Grunge; Goths one day and Indie Kids the next. More than 200 illustrations, including 100 in colour, document the styles and their wearers - on the street, but also on the high-fashion catwalk, to which streetstyle has made an enormous, if perhaps unwilling, contribution. Ted Polhemus's many books include "Fashion and Anti Fashion", "Popstyles", "Social Aspects of the Human Body", "Bodystyles" and "Rituals of Love". He is the external curator of the Streetstyle exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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some excellent photographsn of the various stereo types.An amazing step through the constant changes in fashion. i loved seeing how clothing styles go in a loop.
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Good book. Focus more on style tribe lifestyle than style
18 July 2011
By Kennesha
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This is a good book breaks down each style tribe and their lifestyle of choice. My only complaint, I wish this book break down (on both genders) where are their signature fashion pieces, hairstyles, make up, accessories, and shoes that they wear like, "The Looks Book [Paperback], Esther Drill (Author), Heather McDonald (Author), Rebecca Odes (Author)" demonstrates it.
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Street style: from Sidewalk to Catwalk
19 July 2010
By Principessa
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Anyone who truly loves fashion, and is interested in the history, heritage and inspiration of it, has to read Ted Polhemus' books. He gives a down-to-earth, knowledgable insight into trends.
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Street Fashion Bible
19 April 2010
By Avril Skye
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I'm a fashion merchandising student and was so glad to find a copy of this book. It is extremely well written and legitimately documented to the extent that my best professors use it as a teaching source. It has become my bible for understanding and referencing the history of alternative fashions and for tracing how they become mainstream. I hope that the author will update it to an edition that includes street fashions from the late nineties up until now. However, it's interesting to note that the alternative styles from the early 90's highlighted in the book have become the mainstream styles of today. This book will never lose its relevancy.
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