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Fashion design --- Fashion --- Style in dress --- Clothing and dress --- Clothing design --- Dress design --- History --- Design

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In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media - film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature - but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on current styles. By regularly publishing on these topics in the illustrated press and popular literature, they transformed traditional genres and carved out significant public space for themselves. This book re-evaluates paradigmatic concepts of German modernism such as the 'flâneur,' the 'Feuilleton,' and 'Neue Sachlichkeit' in the light of primary material unearthed in archival research: fashion vignettes, essays, short stories, travelogues, novels, films, documentaries, newsreels, and photographs. Unlike other studies of Weimar culture that have ignored the crucial role of fashion, the book proposes a new genealogy of women's modernity by focusing on the discourse and practice of Weimar fashion, in which the women were transformed from objects of male voyeurism into subjects with complex, ambivalent, and constantly shifting experiences of metropolitan modernity. Mila Ganeva is Associate Professor of German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Fashion in literature. --- Fashion in motion pictures. --- Fashion --- German literature --- Motion pictures, German --- Popular culture --- German motion pictures --- Foreign films --- Style in dress --- Clothing and dress --- Motion pictures --- History --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History. --- feminism.

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"From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction, cinema, and art, the gothic has embraced the powers of horror and the erotic macabre. "Gothic" is an epithet with a strange history - evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. Ironically, its negative connotations have made the gothic an ideal symbol of rebellion for a wide range of cultural outsiders. This gorgeous book is the first in-depth study of the gothic influence on fashion." "Popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and rock musicians, gothic fashion encompasses not only subcultural styles (from old-school goth to cyber-goth and beyond) but also high fashion by such designers as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano of Christian Dior, Rick Owens, Olivier Theyskens, and Yohji Yamamoto. Fashion photographers, such as Scan Ellis and Eugenio Recuenco, have also drawn on the visual vocabulary of the gothic to convey narratives of dark glamour. As the text and lavish illustrations in this book suggest, gothic fashion has deep cultural roots that give it an enduring potency." "Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)."--Jacket.

Gothic rock music --- Goth culture (Subculture) --- Fashion. --- 930.85 --- Style in dress --- Clothing and dress --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Goth rock music --- Alternative rock music --- Social aspects. --- Geschiedenis ; cultuurgeschiedenis, geschiedenis van de civilisatie --- 78.038 --- 7.038 --- 391.038 --- 391.04 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis ; Gothic ; voorlopers en invloeden --- Muziek ; mode ; fotografie ; Gothic beweging --- Muziek ; 1950 - 2000 --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Mode ; 1950 - 2000 --- Mode ; iconografie, thema's --- Fashion --- Social aspects