Product Description

Examining work by John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and others, this book explores what their disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56071 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 334 pages

Review
"'Evans grapples with extremely interesting issues, such as why fashion imagery has become so dark and decadent. Her choice of contemporary fashion imagery - and her juxtaposition of these images with similar themes in art - is brilliant.' Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology 'A compelling line of reasoning here, not to mention some incredibly knockout pictures.' Susan Corrigan, I-D Magazine 'Sensational.' Gemma Hayward, Independent Magazine '... very high production standards... the selection of plates makes up a valuable record and distillation of an end of the century movement.' Robert Radford, The Art Book"

Gemma Hayward, Independent Magazine, 22 November 2003
‘sensational viewing. Well worth the space on your bookshelf’

Suzanne Moore, New Statesman, 5 January 2004
‘magnificent...Evans takes fashion very seriously, and writes in serious depth about it...sophisticated and seductive’

Customer Reviews

Rumbustious!
Buttoned up against the Great Pretender this text evinces a perfectly loitering cadence as if the socks of its author had been imprinted with the days of the week on which they were to be worn. Nor does the Lacanian rainbow concealed in the slanted ticket-pocket of this stingingly tailored paperback sit easily with a shuffling middlebrow readership. Away with them! Indeed, one is driven to wonder whether the ruffs and cuffs of such a ragmuffin parade as one sees any day in the Charing Cross Road can be construed as a kind of St Martin's doollally, an achingly rumbustious "garment" semiologically fusing (in a kind of pubic perambula) Julia Kristeva's famously lilac and conspicuously deviant nether garments with the abject "underpants" of Humbert Humbert. In the ensuing debate one fact emerges clearly. It is the Name of the Father. And so, perhaps, does Agent Provocateur meet CK in the ante rooms of Celine's howling impostures!

THE presant for a fashionista
I can't wait to give this book as a presant. It is a beautiful book and will be apreciated by both those in fashion and thoes who just like to have interesting books about fashion decoration their homes.

Well worth the money
This is a fantastic book for any student who loves Alexander McQueen etc.
It's well written, has some great if slightly small images but is well researched and informative.