What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relati

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to h

The history of modernity written as a philosophy if fashion, set in the cultural framework of Paris.

Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity places WoolfA's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s, and theories

"This volume is the first to explore fashion as a critical aspect of modernity, one that paralleled and many times converged with the development of Impressioni