Danger in the Path of Chic - Violence in Fashion between the Wars

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years.Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.>

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Moyse Ferreira
• Assisted by: Rebecca Arnold (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781350275508
• ISBN: 978-1-350-27550-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Int; Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Material Culture, History of fashion, Violence in society, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Fashion and textile design, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Violence and abuse in society