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Author: Christopher Breward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Berg Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.321kg
ISBN: 9781859737927
ISBN 10: 1859737927
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 25 March 2004
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Christopher Breward proves an entertainingly expert guide to everything from Regency Dandies and Mary Quant's miniskirts to Teddy Boys and Vivienne Westwood's safety pins. * James Kidd, Ham High * Breward leaves no stone unturned in this convincing analysis of the wildly varied style nuances which have gripped the capital over the years. * Khabi Mirza, Drapers * At once an academic text and a love letter to a city, this is Breward's best book yet. Fashioning London breaks new ground as it weaves together disparate histories and discourses to capture the fugitive pleasures of fashion and urban space. * Caroline Evans, Central St Martins College of Art and Design * Breward's utterly fascinating book is an exquisite panorama of the city's dandies, spivs and beaus - of both sexes. Time-travelling through two centuries of fashion, this is the ultimate observer's book of London a la mode. * Philip Hoare, author of Wilde's Last Stand and Noel Coward: A Biography * These scholars exhibit a high degree of sensitivity to the varieties of taste, and they effectively engage cultural theory to analyze artifacts as evidence. Their tales of style and identity, diversity and fashion, production and consumption hold important lessons for business historians traveling the cultural path. * Business History Review *
'Christopher Breward proves an entertainingly expert guide to everything from Regency Dandies and Mary Quant's miniskirts to Teddy Boys and Vivienne Westwood's safety pins.' James Kidd, Ham High 'Breward leaves no stone unturned in this convincing analysis of the wildly varied style nuances which have gripped the capital over the years.' Khabi Mirza, Drapers 'At once an academic text and a love letter to a city, this is Breward's best book yet. Fashioning London breaks new ground as it weaves together disparate histories and discourses to capture the fugitive pleasures of fashion and urban space.' Caroline Evans, Central St Martins College of Art and Design 'Breward's utterly fascinating book is an exquisite panorama of the city's dandies, spivs and beaus - of both sexes. Time-travelling through two centuries of fashion, this is the ultimate observer's book of London a la mode.' Philip Hoare, author of Wilde's Last Stand and Noel Coward: A Biography 'In his f
Author Information
Christopher Breward is Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion.
