Danger in the Path of Chic

Violence in Fashion between the Wars

Lucy Moyse Ferreira (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-12628-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Lucy Moyse Ferreira is Lecturer in Fashion Media and Digital Innovation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter One: Assault
Beauty Doctoring: Advertising Violence and Femininity
Colour: The Assault of Modernity
Fighting Back: Elsa Schiaparelli

Chapter Two: Fragmentation
Dividing the Mind and Body
Fragmented Modernity in the City
Beauty, Art, and the Isolated Eye
The Classical versus Fragmented Body

Chapter Three: Eroticism
Exploring Eroticism
Fashion, Femininity, and Fetishism
Eroticising the Body

Chapter Four: Absence
Fashion and Mourning
Sinister Shadows
Death on the Body

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections
Zusatzinfo	31 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-12628-4 / 1350126284
ISBN-13	978-1-350-12628-2 / 9781350126282
Zustand	Neuware