Fashion and Modernity

by Breward, Christopher; Evans, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9781845200282
• ISBN10: 1845200284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-02
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

This book tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world. From top hats to locomotives, dresses to retail outlets, fashion is a prism through which modernity reflects and refracts. Breward and Evans bring together an organic collaboration of voices on this subject. The collection ranges from such topics as James Morrison (1789-1857), the Napoleon of Shopkeepers; to dress in the Stuart era; The Mannequin Parade, 1900-1925; and clothing the London actress (1860-1914). From the relationship between clothing and forensic sciences, to the play of performance, parasexuality, and the celebrity, Fashion and Modernity offers an enlightening look at fashion and the modern age.

Author Biography

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

Caroline Evans is Reader in Fashion Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

Table of Contents

General Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
List of Illustrations	xiii
Introduction
Christopher Breward and Caroline Evans	1	(8)
Fashion and Modernity
Elizabeth Wilson	9	(8)
Part I Producing Identities
1 James Morrison (1789-1857), 'Napoleon of Shopkeepers', Millionaire Haberdasher, Modern Entrepreneur
Caroline Dakers	17	(22)
Response
John Styles	33	(6)
2 Lee Miller and the Limits of Post-war British Modernity: Femininity, Fashion, and the Problem of Biography
Becky E. Conekin	39	(28)
Response
Carol Tulloch	63	(4)
3 People Dress so Badly Nowadays: Fashion and Late Modernity
Andrew Hill	67	(18)
Response
Adam Briggs	79	(6)
Part II Performing Bodies
4 Court Masques: Tableaux of Modernity in the Early Seventeenth Century?
Andrea Stuart	85	(16)
Response
Susan North	97	(4)
5 Ambiguous Role Models: Fashion, Modernity and the Victorian Actress
Christopher Breward	101	(24)
Response
Lynda Nead	121	(4)
6 Multiple, Movement, Model, Mode: The Mannequin Parade 1900-1929
Caroline Evans	125	(28)
Response
Andrew Bolton	147	(6)
Part III Processes of Modernity
7 The Fingerprint of the Second Skin
Kitty Hauser	153	(22)
Response
Esther Leslie	171	(4)
8 Cuttings and Pastings
Alistair O'Neill	175	(22)
Response
Barry Curtis	191	(6)
9 entropy (fashion) and emergence (fashioning)
Jamie Brassett	197
Response
Ben Highmore	211