Fashioning the Dandy - Style and Manners

The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.

List of contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Fashioning the Dandy; Chapter 2. Literature and Legends; Chapter 3. Charisma and Chameleonism; Chapter 4. Manners ; Chapter 5. The Body; Oscar Wilde; Chapter 7. Russian Dandyism; Chapter 8. Dandyism Revisited; Conclusion; Bibliography; Subject Index ; Name Index

About the author

Olga Vainshtein is a fashion historian. She works at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.

Summary

The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Vainshtein
• Assisted by: Sofi Cook (Translation), Sofia Horujaya-Cook (Translation)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781839984440
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-444-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dress and Visual Cultures; Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, HISTORY / Europe / Western, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, History of fashion, Gender studies: men and boys, Cultural studies: dress and society, George Brummell; Count D'Orsay