POP! Design, Culture, Fashion 1955-1976 explores the impact of
music, art and personality on the development of the design and
fashion of the times. Published to accompany an exhibition at the
Fashion and Textile Museum, London, July - October 2012. Pop!
Design, Culture, Fashion 1956-1976 covers all aspects of Pop design
in Britain and America, from early rock 'n' roll to punk. It looks
at record covers and packaging designs by Pop artists such as Andy
Warhol, Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton, and the work of fashion
designers such as Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki from Biba, Vivienne
Westwood and John Stephen of Carnaby Street fame, as well as their
contemporaries in America such as Betsey Johnson of Paraphernalia.
Pop graphics are also covered, from the psychedelic posters of Alan
Aldridge, and the design collective 'Hapdash and the Coloured Coat'
to rock posters from San Francisco and the west coast of America.
There are also reproductions of rarely-seen underground magazines
such as Oz, Gandalf's Garden, l' Actuel and the International
Times. The ephemeral nature of much of Pop design is explored -
from paper furniture and 'throwaway' paper dresses, to
longer-lasting trends such as Union Jack clothing, metal badges,
machine-embroidered denim, printed t-shirts and tin badges. The
book also looks at the work of 'Them', an influential group of
'Baroque Pop' designers who coalesced around Zandra Rhodes in the
early 70s, and ends with the anti-design of punk fashion by
Vivienne Westwood, and the self-proclaimed 'horrible by design'
punk graphics of Jamie Reid. Whilst there have been innumerable
books on the Swinging Sixties, and on Pop Art, this is the first
book to look at Pop design over a twenty year span, and to examine
the interconnected nature of so many elements of the phenomenon
such as books and magazines, music, film, fashion and graphic art.
It is also unique in that the illustrations are not sourced from
the usual magazine archive images, but are photographs of the
artefacts themselves, from Elton John's waistcoat, embroidered with
suns, stars and rainbows, to Twiggy coathangers, psychedelic book
covers and every teenager's must-have item: 'Glo Glo boots for Go
Go girls'. Geoff Rayner and Richard Chamberlain are experts in
post-war design, specialising in the history of textiles. They have
curated a number of exhibitions, and written (with Annamarie
Stapleton) several books most recently Artists' Textiles
1945-76ISBN: 9781851496297 (published by Antique Collectors' Club,
2012).
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