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Fashion at the edge : spectacle, modernity and deathliness /
By: Edwards, Caroline
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Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : London : Yale University Press, 2003Description: 320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300101929; 9780300101928:.Subject(s): Fashion -- History | Fashion | Costume design -- Social aspects | Fashion -- Psychological aspects | Fashion -- Social aspects | Costume -- Symbolic aspects | Death in artDDC classification: 391 Summary: Contemporary experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 391 EDW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0052709 |
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Contemporary experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.