Champagne Supernovas
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Champagne Supernovas

Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Champagne Supernovas

Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion

About this book

“Terrifically exciting and fun” (Publishers Weekly), Champagne Supernovas is “a lucid, smoothly executed look at a pivotal decade in the legacy of American fashion” (Kirkus Reviews) as told through the lives of Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen—the three iconic personalities who defined the time.

Veteran pop culture journalist Maureen Callahan takes us back to the pivotal style moment of the early 1990s—when supermodel glamazons gave way to heroin chic, when the alternative became the mainstream, and when fashion suddenly became the cradle for the most exciting artistic and cultural innovations of the age. Champagne Supernovas gives you the inside scoop from a bevy of supermodels, stylists, editors, photographers, confidantes, club kids, and scenesters who were there. They’ll tell the unvarnished story of three of the most influential personalities to emerge in fashion in decades—Kate, Marc, and McQueen—and show why the conditions in the 1990s were perfect for their rise…but also helped contribute to their personal struggles.

Steeped in the creative brew of art, decadence, and genius that defined the era, Champagne Supernovas is a “titillating ride through the fashion world” (Elle) that offers readers front-row tickets to a gloriously debauched soap opera about the losers and freaks who became the industry’s It Girls and Boys…and who changed the larger culture forever.

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Information

Publisher
Touchstone
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781451640588
eBook ISBN
9781451640595
Topic
Design
Subtopic
Fashion Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Introduction: This New Kind of Beauty
  5. Chapter 1: The Maybe Drawer
  6. Chapter 2: The Pink Sheep of the Family
  7. Chapter 3: Fifteen-Year-Olds Don’t Go to Nightclubs
  8. Chapter 4: Just Another Common Bitch
  9. Chapter 5: I Am the ’90s
  10. Chapter 6: A Culture Person in the Fashion World
  11. Chapter 7: Why Can’t I Have Fun All the Time?
  12. Chapter 8: A Catalog of Horrors
  13. Chapter 9: Grunge R.I.P.
  14. Chapter 10: A Nice Girl from Croydon
  15. Chapter 11: Fashion People Haven’t Got Any Brains
  16. Chapter 12: A Handbag That Costs as Much as a Month’s Rent
  17. Chapter 13: Cool Britannia
  18. Chapter 14: Those Skinny Fashion Bitches in the Front Row
  19. Chapter 15: The Decade of the Dilettante
  20. Chapter 16: The Queen of Primrose Hill
  21. Chapter 17: Paris Does Nothing for Me
  22. Chapter 18: It’s the Girl, Not the Clothes
  23. Chapter 19: When the Little Glow in Your Face Goes
  24. Chapter 20: Can Everybody Not Give Lee Any Drugs?
  25. Chapter 21: These People Are Not Your Friends
  26. Chapter 22: A Supermodel Just like McDonald’s
  27. Chapter 23: Paris for Couture, London for Suits, America for Psychiatric Hospitals
  28. Epilogue
  29. Photographs
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. About Maureen Callahan
  32. Notes
  33. Index
  34. Copyright