{"product_id":"fashion-at-the-edge-9780300270952","title":"Fashion at the Edge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow back in print, this seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s and its relation to deep cultural anxieties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Magnificent . . . Evans takes fashion very seriously, and writes in serious depth about it . . . sophisticated and seductive.”—Suzanne Moore, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Outstandingly researched, beautifully illustrated, and thrillingly authoritative, \u003ci\u003eFashion at the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e may prove to be the definitive book on the generation of designers from London and Antwerp who came to prominence in the 1990s.”—Roger Tredre, \u003ci\u003eWGSN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Caroline Evans makes bold claims . . . by the end of the book I was gripped.”—Madeleine Bunting, Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A benchmark publication that sets into print the preoccupations of a generation of like-minded scholars, curators, theorists, practitioners and critics. Handsomely designed, with a selection of arresting images that will convince future historians of fashion imagery that the turn of the twenty-first century was truly an extraordinary and haunted epoch, \u003ci\u003eFashion at the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e is a complex synthesis . . . Evans has authored an influential classic.”—Christopher Breward, \u003ci\u003eCostume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I cannot be alone in having longed for just this type of book, a detailed study of cutting edge fashion, by someone who really understands its complexities as a discipline in its own right.”—Nicola Donovan, \u003ci\u003eSelvedge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A complex and provocative text, one that displays both the substantial intellect and practical curiosity of its author.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Evans grapples with extremely interesting issues, such as why fashion imagery has become so dark and decadent. Her choice of contemporary fashion imagery—and her juxtaposition of these images with similar themes in art—is brilliant.”—Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083466744151,"sku":"9780300270952","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300270952.jpg?v=1725549034","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fashion-at-the-edge-9780300270952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}