Arnold, R: Fashion, Desire and Anxiety

Name: Arnold, R: Fashion, Desire and Anxiety
Brand: I.B. Tauris
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By Rebecca Arnold

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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 exlores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety that it provokes.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 192
Release Date:: 2001-03-02
Publication Date:: 2001-03-02
Publisher:: I.B. Tauris
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1860645550
ISBN13:: 9781860645556
Weight:: 440 g
Height:: 190 cm
Width:: 237 cm
Thickness:: 12 cm

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