Fashion’s Double: Representations of fashion in painting, photography and film

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Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. /Fashion’s Double/ examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film, conveying identity and status, eliciting fascination and desire. With in-depth case studies including the work of Nick Knight and Helmut Newton, film examples such as /The Hunger Games/, music video /Girl Panic/ by Duran Duran, and much more, this book analyses the interrelationship between clothing, identity, embodiment, representation and self-representation. Written for students and scholars alike, /Fashion’s Double/ will appeal to anyone studying fashion, cultural studies, art theory and history, photography, sociology, and film. Cover page Halftitle page Series page Epigraph Title page Copyright page Dedication CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Notes 1 PAINTING FASHION Winterhalter and Worth Academicians and Impressionists John Singer Sargent’s Madame X Fashion, painting and the fall of the old world order Notes 2 THE MODEL IMAGE The transition from graphic imagery to photography Edward Steichen and the birth of the fashion shoot Fashion photographers in the fi rst half of the twentieth century Adolph de Meyer George Hoyningen-Huene and Horst Cecil Beaton Richard Avedon Lee Miller After the Second World War Notes 3 THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS AND CAPITOL COUTURE The little black dress Breakfast at Tiffany’s That’s entertainment: The Hunger Games and Capitol Couture Notes 4 PERVERSE UTOPIAS Formalism in photography Woman doesn’t exist Excess and Eros Notes 5 MUSIC VIDEO, PORNOCHIC AND RETRO-ELEGANCE Pornostyle and the pornifi cation of fashion Unwieldy fashion in representation Madonna’s Blond Ambition ‘Girl Panic’ Gendering pornochic and SM style Notes 6 FASHION FILM, OR THE DISAPPEARING CATWALK Early days of fashion fi lm Moving fashion The democratization of fashion Brothers of Arcadia : Homotography, or the meeting of fashion fi lm and pornochic Notes CONCLUSION Note BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX