Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between the Wars (Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections)

By: Lucy Moyse Ferreira

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Synopsis: During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years.Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 240 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781350126305
Related ISBNs:: 9781350126282
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 12/01/21
Copyrighted By:: Lucy Moyse Ferreira
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.