Danger in the Path of Chic : Violence in Fashion between the Wars (Paperback)

List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: Assault Beauty Doctoring: Advertising Violence and Femininity Colour: The Assault of Modernity Fighting Back: Elsa Schiaparelli Chapter Two: Fragmentation Dividing the Mind and Body Fragmented Modernity in the City Beauty, Art, and the Isolated Eye The Classical versus Fragmented Body Chapter Three: Eroticism Exploring Eroticism Fashion, Femininity, and Fetishism Eroticising the Body Chapter Four: Absence Fashion and Mourning Sinister Shadows Death on the Body Conclusion Bibliography Index