London Look Fashion from Street to Catwalk

Name: London Look Fashion from Street to Catwalk
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ISBN: 9780300103991

ISBN-10: 0300103999

ISBN-13: 9780300103991

Edition: 2004

Authors: Christopher Breward, Edwina Ehrman, Caroline Evans

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From Savile Row to Carnaby Street, from the bohemian dress of the Oscar Wilde circle in the nineteenth century to the punk street styles of recent years, London has been a significant source of fashion style. This stunning book, a rich and stimulating history of two hundred years of London fashion, explores the circumstances and characteristics that have made the “London look” distinctive. Focusing on the design, production, marketing, and consumption of clothing during this period, the authors place these activities in the context of social, cultural, and economic change in the capital. They move chronologically, discussing the rise of the West End as a center of fashionable life; the era…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/11/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 180
Size: 9.75" wide x 11.25" long x 1.98" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

Christopher Breward is Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion, UK.



Foreword



Introduction




Gentlefolk in town : 1800-30




Clothing a world city : 1830-60




Fashion in the age of imperialism : 1860-90




Popular dressing : 1890-1914




Glamorous modernity : 1914-30




Broken traditions : 1930-55




Post-war poses : 1955-75




Cultural capital : 1976-2000



Postscript : beyond 2000