TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steele,Valerie
ED  - Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.),
TI  - A queer history of fashion: from the closet to the catwalk 
SN  - 9780300196702 (hbk.) :
U1  - 746.9'2 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press in association with the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
KW  - Fashion design
KW  - History
KW  - Fashion
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Gay culture
N1  - LGBTQ+; LGBT+; LGBTQ; LGBT; Includes bibliographical references; Specialized
N2  - 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
ER  -