Fashion, Desire and Anxiety
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Fashion, Desire and Anxiety

Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century

Rebecca Arnold

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Fashion, Desire and Anxiety

Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century

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.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2001
ISBN
9780857718396
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Customs & Traditions
Index
Social Sciences
133
Notes
46.
Maynard, 
J., 
Looking 
Back, 
A 
Chronicle 
of
Growing 
Up 
Old 
in 
the 
Sixties
, 
London:
Michael 
Joseph, 
1975, 
p.116
47.
Weil, 
Androgyny
, 
p.2
48.
Quoted 
in 
Wilson,C., 
‘Drugs 
and 
Fashion’,
The 
Telegraph 
Magazine
, 
27.6.98, 
p.35

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