Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Book Blicero Books
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Rebecca Arnold - Fashion, Desire and Anxiety. Image and Morality in the 20th Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, and London: I.B.Tauris, 2001. Softcover, 144 pp, containing 44 black & white photographs, a bibliography and a filmography.

Front cover illustration showing model from the Christian Dior 'Haute Couture', Autumn/Winter 1997/98 collection. Back cover illustration Charles Jourdin advertizing image from 1975, photograph by Guy Bourdin. Categorized in 'Cultural Studies/Gender Studies'. 

First edition, first printing. A fine copy.

Chapters:

  1. Status, Power and Display: Excess, Cruelty and Power, Simplicity, Imperfection, Eco
  2. Violence and Provocation: Ultra Style/Ultra Violence, Gangsters, Gangstas, Skinheads, Punks, Heroin Chic, Decadence and Decay
  3. The Eroticised Body: Underwear as Outerwear, Eroticism, Fetish, The Brutalised Body, Flesh, Skin
  4. Gender and Subversion: New Woman, Dressing Up: Woman, Dressing Up: Man, Unisex, Androgyny

Fashion reflects and takes part in the construction of ideas surrounding the body and its display. It demonstrates that morality is not a set of fixed absolutes stating a monolithic culture's unchanging standards of acceptability but, rather, constantly shifting beliefs that can be moulded and challenged to reflect the myriad social and cultural groups of western culture. Fashion displays the promise and the threat of the future, tempting the consumer with new identities expressing fragmented moralities of cultural diversity and social uncertainty. 

Generously illustrated, the book contains photographs from collections by Moschino, Christian Dior, Valentino, Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, Vivienne Westwood, YSL, John Galliano for Dior, Alexander McQueen for Givenchy, Comme des Garçons, Dolce & Gabanna, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Paul Smith, Gucci & many more.

Now a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Fashion historian Rebecca Arnold lectured in cultural studies, fashion history and theory at Central Saint Martins, where, in the year this book was published, she set up set up and ran the BA (Hons) Fashion History and Theory.

Her research interests include Fashion and modernity, Dress and the body, Film and fashion and Dress and the everyday.