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Author Evans, Caroline, 1954-

Title Fashion at the edge : spectacle, modernity and deathliness / Caroline Evans
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003

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Description vii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary "Caroline Evans analyses the work of experimental designers, the images of fashion photographers, and the spectacular fashion shows that developed in the final decade of the twentieth century to arrive at a new understanding of fashion's dark side and what it signifies?" "Drawing on a variety of literary and theoretical perspectives - from Marx to Benjamin - Evans argues that fashion plays a leading role in constructing images and meanings during periods of rapid change. She shows persuasively that fashion stands at the very centre of the contemporary, where it voices some of Western culture's deepest concerns."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Fashion -- History.
Costume design -- History.
Fashion -- Social aspects.
Costume design -- Social aspects.
LC no. 2003005825
ISBN 0300101384 hardback alkaline paper
0300101929