Christopher Breward

Fashion

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This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street, and developing fabric technology from silk to fleece. From Coco Chanel to Armani and Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phenomenon.Breward examines the glamorous world of Vogue and advertising, the relationship between fashion and film, and fashion as a business, and goes beyond the surface to consider our interaction with fashion. How have our ideas about hygiene and comfort influenced the direction of style? How does our dress create our identity and status? Details of dandies, flappers, and punks are contained within a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-158773-3
EAN: 9780191587733
Produktnummer: 17038938
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 17'061 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Christopher Breward is Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion (London Institute). In 1995, he published the first academic textbook on fashion, The Culture of Fashion, which was very well received. He has curated various exhibitions, including 2004's Capital Fashion for the Museum of London, has made appearances on radio 3 and 4 on Today, and Woman's Hour, and has acted as a historicalconsultant for channel 4 and BBC programmes such as The Victorian House, Head to Toe, and Behind the Seams.