Description
Exploring violent tropes in British, French and American fashion c. 1919-39, this book asks why they appeared and how they relate to their social, political and cultural contexts.
About the Author
Lucy Moyse Ferreira is Lecturer in Fashion Media and Digital Innovation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.
Reviews
A fascinating discussion of fashion's transformations in the period ... This book gets to the heart of what fashion was about, then and for the decades that followed. * Journal of Design History *
In this fascinating and highly readable book, Lucy Moyse Ferreira connects fashion to war, politics, psychoanalysis and art, showing how a sense of historical crisis permeated every aspect of fashion in the interwar years, from beauty advertising to haute couture. * Caroline Evans, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK *
With lively and sophisticated writing, Danger in the Path of Chic offers a valuable transnational study of women's fashion and beauty in the interwar years. Moyse Ferreira's interweaving of psychoanalysis with other art movements reflects the trauma of the time period and how high-fashion provided an avenue by which to process those terrors. * Elizabeth Matelski, Endicott College, USA *
With her psychoanalytic discussion of the interwar period, Lucy Moyse Ferreira smartly dissects a wide array of media (including art, fashion, literature, advertising, film, and more). Showing how the violence of World War II consistently lingered throughout the Western World, she successfully argues that a threatening sensibility affected women's bodies and their display in public through overt and coded means. Moyse Ferreira manages to weave a number of disparate media to create a coherent and synthesized view of the undercurrent of violence in women's experiences in the dark spaces between the major world wars. * Emily Newman, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350275508
Author Lucy Moyse Ferreira
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections