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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Personal appearance & beauty care > Cosmetics, make-up & skin care
"My life is a constant battle between vanity and laziness. This
book has brokered the perfect peace deal!" - Graham Norton Should I
tint my eyebrows? How can I get a squarer jawline? Which style of
trouser would make my legs look longer? Leading lifestyle columnist
and magazine editor, Jeremy Langmead, has men constantly asking him
for answers to these questions and more. In Vain Glorious, he teams
up with Harley Street aesthetic doctor David Jack to lift the lid
on all the anti-ageing and beauty secrets now available for men,
from Botox to hair thickening treatments. Dr Jack provides the
medical expertise, whilst Langmead test-drives the products and
procedures on offer - sharing often hilarious snapshots of his own
hit-and-miss journey of rejuvenation, as well as sartorial tricks
and insider tips from his time editing Esquire and running the
men's fashion website mrporter.com. Vain Glorious is an honest and
practical guide to help men feel comfortable in their own skin.
Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the
20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political,
and economic upheaval. As Spain moved from dictatorship to
democracy and, most recently, to the digital age, fashion has
experienced seismic shifts. The chapters in this collection reveal
how women empowered themselves through fashion choices, detail
Balenciaga's international stardom, present female photographers
challenging gender roles under Franco's rule, and uncover the
politicization of the mantilla. In the visual culture of Spanish
fashion, tradition and modernity coexist and compete, reflecting
society's changing affects. Using a range of case studies and
approaches, this collection explores fashion in films, comics from
la Movida, Rosalia's music videos, and both brick-and-mortar and
virtual museums. It demonstrates that fashion is ripe with
historical meaning, and offers unique insights into the many facets
of Spanish cultural life.
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