Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness

by Caroline Evans

Book Overview

Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation and decay. This seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Caroline Evans analyses the work of innovative designers, the images of fashion photographers and the spectacular fashion shows that developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030027095X
• ISBN13: 9780300270952
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 10.8"