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FashionQuake

FashionQuake

The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion

by Caroline Young
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/09/2022

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FashionQuake presents fashions most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers 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, risqu 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.

ISBN:
9780711267442
9780711267442
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group UK
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
201x150x26.67mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Caroline Young

Caroline Young is a writer and author specialising in fashion and film history. She is the co-author of Tartan and Tweed, and the author of Classic Hollywood Style, Hitchcock's Heroines, Roman Holiday: The Secret Life of Hollywood in Rome, and Welbeck's The Colour of Fashion.

Originally from Edinburgh, where she still lives, she took a Masters in Journalism in Brisbane, Australia after studying English and film and TV studies at Glasgow University. She worked as a fashion writer and assistant digital editor at Herald Scotland. She also has a strong interest in the golden age of Hollywood, and has extensively researched at archives in Los Angeles for her books on film history and costume.

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