Publisher:
Yale University Press, New Haven ; London
"Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alientation, and decay. This ... publication offers an unexpected discussion of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us...
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"Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alientation, and decay. This ... publication offers an unexpected discussion of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties ... Fashion at the Edge considers a range of groundbreaking fashion in ... depth and detail, including the works of such designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Viktor and Rolf and Martin Margiela"-- Page 2 of cover