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The Pimlico Companion To Fashion: A Literary Anthology

The Pimlico Companion To Fashion: A Literary Anthology

by Colin Mc Dowell (Editor)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

From Ovid to Malcolm X , The Ladies Magazine to 'Punch , Mary Wollstone-craft to Anita Loos, William Hazlitt to D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Carlyle to Brett Easton Ellis, Fanny Burney to Jean Genet, Virginia Woolf to Milan Kundera, dress has stimulated comments at all levels - whether witty, ironic, moralistic, critical or simply sensual. Using letters, journals and memoirs, as well as novels, poetry and plays, and covering over four hundred years of writing, including British, Irish, American and European literature, The Pimlico Companion to Fashion is surely the ultimate collection about dress.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 01 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 0712666095
ISBN 13: 9780712666091
Book Overview: 'An intricate, delicious anthology... This book gleams with sudden insights into manners, mores and social structures of the past... Mc Dowell's selection is first rate. ' Fiona McCarthy, Observer 19980728

Media Reviews
This good-humoured anthology acquires the allure of a catwalk: relentlessly paced; designed to surprise, to excite and delight. -- Jennifer Potter Times Literary Supplement It is delightful to find fashion treated with respect... Wonderfully funny...Open it where you will and you will be amused. -- Hardy Amies Daily Telegraph A treasure of an anthology. -- Harriet Quick Guardian An elegant collection... A volume as uplifting to the spirits as a Proper Frock from Paris. -- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph The book is beautifully paced, its long passages punctuated by sharp, epigrammatic observations, their truth enhanced by their economy... This book is a must for any student of literature, human nature and, of course, fashion. -- Nicholas Foulkes Country Life
Author Bio
Colin McDowell is an internationally recognised fashion historian, a designer, commentator and critic. Among his many books on fashion are McDowell's Directory of Twentieth-Century Fashion; The Designer Scam; Dressed to Kill: Sex, Power and Clothes; Hats: Status and Glamour and Shoes: Fashion and Fantasy. He was written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Women's Journal and appears on radion and television. He has also written two successful novels set in the world of Italian fashion.