num_pages: 205
description: The title says it all: Bad Girls of Fashion explores the lives of ten famous women who have used clothing to make a statement change perceptions break rules attract power or express their individuality. Included are Cleopatra Marie Antoinette Coco Chanel Marlene Dietrich Madonna and Lady Gaga. Sidebar subjects include: Elizabeth I Marilyn Monroe Rihanna and Vivienne Westwood.Photos illuminate the text while edgy vividly colored illustrations depict the subjects with interpretive flair. Readers will learn not only about changing fashion styles through history but about changing historical attitudes toward women and the links between fashion and art film music politics and feminism. With an energetic appealing writing style Croll demonstrates how through the ages women  often without other means of power  have used fashion as a tool and how their influence continues to shape how women present themselves today.
language: English
title: Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels from Cleopatra to Lady Gaga
publisher: Annick Press