num_pages: 334
description: Caroline Evans analyses the work of experimental designers, the images of fashion photographers, and the spectacular fashion shows that developed in the final decade of the twentieth century to arrive at a new understanding of fashion's dark side and what it signifies?Drawing on a variety of literary and theoretical perspectives - from Marx to Benjamin - Evans argues that fashion plays a leading role in constructing images and meanings during periods of rapid change. She shows persuasively that fashion stands at the very centre of the contemporary, where it voices some of Western culture's deepest concerns.
language: English
title: Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness
titlecomplete: Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness
genres: History, Philosophy, Theory, Fashion, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 104
publisher: Yale University Press