Suiting yourself
Peter Campbell, 27 July 1989
I Modi. The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of Renaissance Italy
by Lynne Lawner.
Northwestern, 132 pp., $35.95, February 1989,0 8101 0803 8 Show More
by Lynne Lawner.
Northwestern, 132 pp., $35.95, February 1989,
The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525
by Stella Mary Newton.
Scolar, 196 pp., £28.50, December 1988,0 85967 735 4 Show More
by Stella Mary Newton.
Scolar, 196 pp., £28.50, December 1988,
Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: René Bouët-Willamez and Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: Carl Erickson
by William Parker.
Joseph, 128 pp., £14.95, March 1989,0 86350 198 2 Show More
by William Parker.
Joseph, 128 pp., £14.95, March 1989,
Women and Fashion
by Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton.
Quartet, 184 pp., £15, March 1989,0 7043 2691 4 Show More
by Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton.
Quartet, 184 pp., £15, March 1989,
“... Plotting the transformations of the feminine and the female in modern fashion, Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton use photographs which turn subtexts into headlines. The iconography of androgyny, neurosis or sexual aggression puts darts, tucks and gussets into the background; the little fictions of the fashion feature which, in the Forties and ... ”
