A queer history of fashion : from the closet to the catwalk / edited by Valerie Steele.
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TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 248 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300196702 (hbk.) :Other title: Q [Cover title]Subject(s): Fashion design -- History | Fashion -- Social aspects -- History | Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History | Gay cultureDDC classification: 746.9'2 Summary: From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.
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From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.
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