Fashionquake

FashionQuake presents fashion's most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up.

Discover fashion that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up.

FashionQuake introduces 50 pivotal moments that shook the world and changed mainstream fashion forever, telling the fascinating stories behind each piece's creation, reception and legacy.

From awe-inspiring couture to protest T-shirts, bumster trousers to safety-pin dresses, this book profiles the cutting-edge of fashion, featuring enigmatic designers, risqué campaigns, surreal haute couture and radical clothing. By tracing the history of modern fashion via the pieces that steered away from the norm, Caroline Young tells us how we got to the here and now.

This fascinating and deeply insightful book presents an alternative introduction to fashion focusing on 50 moments that consciously questioned boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.

This book is from the Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields. Also available are ArtQuake, FilmQuake and MusicQuake.

Autorentext

Caroline Young is an Edinburgh-based writer and fashion journalist. She is the author of Classic Hollywood Style (2012), Style Tribes (2016), Tartan and Tweed (2017) and Living with Coco Chanel (2019).

Klappentext

Little hands will love to explore this stylish and playful book, filled with rainbow designs and soft tactile elements for babies to play with. From a pop out caterpillar to a llama with a tassel mane, each page has a fascinating new design with unique features to touch and play with.

Zusammenfassung
FashionQuake presents fashion's most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up.

Inhalt
Introduction
MODERNISM AND LIBERATION: 1890–1930
MID-CENTURY STYLE: 1931–1953
THE RISE OF COUNTERCULTURE: 1954–1984
GEN X AND Y: 1980–2007
PROTEST AND RESISTANCE: 2008–PRESENT
Glossary
Picture Credits
Index