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Fashioning London - Clothing and the Modern Metropolis (Hardcover, Revised)
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Fashioning London - Clothing and the Modern Metropolis (Hardcover, Revised)
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Over the past three centuries, London has established itself as one
of the worlds most inventive fashion capitals. City life and
fashion have always been intertwined, but nowhere has this
relationship been more excitingly expressed than on the streets of
London. Fashioning London looks at the manner in which particular
styles of dress became associated with this leading international
city, ultimately challenging the dominance of Paris, Milan and New
York.From the ballrooms and boxing rings of the eighteenth century,
through Victorian extremes of poverty and conspicuous consumption,
to the flamboyant explosions of subcultural taste that define the
capital today, Londoners have constantly offered an idiosyncratic
reading of fashionability that has profoundly influenced the nature
of style elsewhere. Breward constructs an original history of
clothing in London its manufacture, promotion and cultural meaning
while showing how issues of space, architecture and performance
impinge on notions of fashionability. It highlights the importance
of such outfits as the dandy's suit, the dolly bird's mini-skirt
and the second-hand ensemble of the punk in forming our
understanding of the capital's distinctive character. Drawing on a
range of sources, including paintings, street photography, maps,
tourist guides, literature, stage and press representations,
Fashioning London paints a vivid and definitive portrait of Londons
iconoclastic style.
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