Fashion zeitgeist
Subtitle: trends and cycles in the fashion system
By: Barbara Vinken ; translated by Mark Hewson.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Fashion design -- History.; Fashion -- History.; Fashion designers -- History.
Description: "Although it is appealing to think that fashion turns away from conventions, is this really the case? Or are "pioneering" designs simply part of a cyclical revival of forgotten fashions? Looking at some of the most influential designers of the twentieth century--from Yamamoto to Gaultier to Lagerfeld--Vinken considers the politics and philosophies that have been the driving force directing their sense of style. Vinken shows how fashion trends are informed by the past. Chanel, under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld, is viewed as the only fashion house to have remained fresh after one hundred years, yet is this success essentially proof of the self-referential qualities fashion has adopted? What inspired the fetish for labels at the end of the twentieth century? Answering these questions and many more, this thought-provoking book shows how beauty, gender, sexuality, commerce, and dandyism have persisted in defining the fashion system." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004020615.html.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I, Postfashion; title: What fashion strictly divided; title: Adorned in Zeitgeist; title: High and low: the end of a century of fashion; title: Part II, Eight types of fashion; title: Lagerfeld for Chanel: the griffe; title: Montana, Mugler: myth; title: Dolce & Gabbana: deep south; title: Comme des garcȯns: ex oriente lux; title: Yohji Yamamoto: the secret sewn in; title: Gaultier: revaluation of all values; title: Helmut Lang: fabric, skin and figure; title: Martin Margiela: signs of time.