Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness Bill Holm Bursting with wit

Bursting with wit

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The Art of New York is a visual and cultural survey of New York City as seen through graphic design

Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness Bill Holm Bursting with witFashion at the Edge explores how experimental fashion of the 1990s went beyond clothes and runway spectacle to reflect deep seated cultural anxieties about death, trauma, alienation, and modern life. Caroline Evans analyzes groundbreaking designers including John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, and Viktor & Rolf along with iconic fashion photography and stage like runway shows, to show how fashion became a vehicle for expressing some of