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"Uses influential fashion collections and shows to explore the huge shifts in identity, body politics, representation and authenticity in relation to clothing in Britain, Europe and America over the last 30 years"--

(Paperback)

"Uses influential fashion collections and shows to explore the huge shifts in identity, body politics, representation and authenticity in relation to clothing in Britain, Europe and America over the last 30 years"--

(Hardback)

Provides an evaluation of the history of men's fashion advertising in the first half of the twentieth century. Alongwith issues of representation to broader socio-economic contexts, this study addresses the discourses relating to professionalization, modernity, mass-communication and marketing, display and consumer psychology.

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Replete with confident head-turners, many posters of the period featured dandies knowingly offering up their bodies for the delectation of women - an irony made doubly rich by the fact that these images were consumed almost exclusively by men.

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Exploring representations of the feminine and masculine body - from super-vamp to super-waif, from buffalo boy to new man - this book considers the social, economic and aesthetic factors that have been instrumental in forging an identity for fashion photography since 1980.