Title: Fashion and modernity /
Authors: Breward, Christopher, 1965-; Evans, Caroline.
Publisher: Berg,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Fashion History; Fashion Psychological aspects; Clothing and dress Symbolic aspects; Modernism (Aesthetics)
Abstract: "This book tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world. From top hats to locomotives, dresses to retail outlets, fashion is a prism through which modernity reflects and refracts. Breward and Evans bring together an organic collaboration of voices on this subject. The collection ranges from such topics as James Morrison (1789-1857), the Napoleon of Shopkeepers to dress in the Stuart era The Mannequin Parade, 1900-1925 and clothing the London actress (1860-1914). From the relationship between clothing and forensic sciences, to the play of performance, parasexuality, and the celebrity, Fashion and Modernity offers an enlightening look at fashion and the modern age." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004023161.html.
Contents: Introduction / Christopher Breward and Caroline Evans -- Fashion and modernity / Elizabeth Wilson -- 1. James Morrison (1789-1857), "Napoleon of shopkeepers", millionaire haberdasher, modern entrepreneur / Caroline Dakers -- Response / John Styles -- 2. Lee Miller and the limits of post-war British modernity : femininity, fashion, and the problem of biography / Becky E. Conekin -- Response / Carol Tulloch -- 3. People dress so badly nowadays : fashion and late modernity / Andrew Hill -- Response / Adam Briggs -- 4. Court masques : tableux of modernity in the early seventeenth century? / Andrea Stuart -- Response / Susan North -- 5. Ambiguous role models : fashion, modernity and the Victorian actress / Christopher Breward -- Response / Lynda Nead -- 6. Multiple, movement, model, mode : the mannequin parade 1900-1929 / Caroline Evans -- Response / Andrew Bolton -- 7. The fingerprint of the second skin / Kitty Hauser -- Response / Esther Leslie -- 8. Cuttings and pastings / Alistair O’Neill -- Reponse / Barry Curtis -- 9. Entropy (fashion) and emergence (fashioning) / Jamie Brassett -- Response / Ben Highmore.