Introduction -- Reinvention / Colleen Hill -- Restlessness / Colleen Hill -- Spectacle: fashion on parade / Patricia Mears -- Constructing photographic realities / Shonagh Marshall -- The rise of fashion studies / Valerie Steele.
Summary:
"Minimalism. Deconstruction. The rejuvenation of established houses. [These] are just a few of the concepts that have come to define 1990s fashion. Others include an increased concern with environmentalism, developing technologies and the beginning of the fashion Internet, freewheeling historical references, and a predilection for lifting significant styles from other cultures (the issues raised by this 'borrowing' are reviewed through a contemporary lens). In the twenty years since the decade ended, the fashion world has experienced several nineties revivals. [This book] focuses specifically on designers who challenged the expected appearance or workings of high fashion, and who played an important role in laying the foundation for fashion of the twenty-first century"--Publisher marketing.
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