Fashion, desire, and anxiety
Subtitle: image and morality in the twentieth century
By: Rebecca Arnold.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Fashion -- Social aspects.; Fashion -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western culture that is both enticing and alienating, flaunting capitalism's euphoric emblems of glamour and success but also representing the underside of modern life. In the 1970s, photographers like Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton set models against backdrops of tarnished glamour; in the 1990s Alexander McQueen and John Galliano created decadent femmes fatales whose sexual allure was equally tempting and threatening. Rebecca Arnold explores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradict.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.