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1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History [Kietas viršelis]

(London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London, UK)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 208 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x162x18 mm, weight: 620 g, 34 bw illus
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Jul-2025
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1350076295
  • ISBN-13: 9781350076297
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 208 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 236x162x18 mm, weight: 620 g, 34 bw illus
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Jul-2025
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1350076295
  • ISBN-13: 9781350076297
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Raktažodžiai:
"As the British fashion industry took off in the post-war period, the figure of the photographic fashion model rapidly came to represent a new mode of femininity: independent, successful, and fashionably dressed. Fashioning a Life explores the wealth of life writing surrounding these glamourous 'Model Girls', from autobiography and memoir to advice literature. The book draws on a wealth of archival research and the writing of professional women in the field - including Jean Shrimpton, Mary Quant, and Janey Ironside - and explores these narratives through the lens of the popular culture and mass media of the late 1950s and 1960s"--

Examining histories of post-war Britain, fashion, modelling, photography and popular culture, 1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, auto/biographies and fashion exhibits.

Introducing theories of history, life-writing and narrative identity, 1960s Model Girl demonstrates how these can be applied to the study of fashion and shows how fashion studies opens new pathways to understanding identity and emergent British femininities. Drawing on a wealth of archival research, case studies include teen fashion magazines Petticoat and Model Girl; advice writing of model agent Lucie Clayton and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes; autobiographies of fashion models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy; and the Mary Quant exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2019-2020).

This book provides an intricate study of a varied and manifold figure whose impact and influence spreads further afield than a particular time, place and professional context. Closely attending to a range of model girl narratives, 1960s Model Girl illuminates the cultural past and, in turn, sheds light on our own historical present.

Recenzijos

This book offers fascinating insights into the material and affective dimensions of the 1960s Model Girl. It is a richly illustrated, textured examination of this central sixties figure, drawing on a wide range of material resources to capture the appeal of the model as dream, profession and aspiration'. * Joanne Entwistle, Kings College London, UK * This thoughtful examination provides a crucial genealogy of that eras Model Girl, a figure central to our understanding of the complex period that was the Sixties. McDowells consideration of the modelsubject and object, original and copy, material and abstract, ordinary and extraordinary, person and processallows for a keen analysis of these girls self/representational practices, smartly exposing the ambivalences and interstices of model/girl fashion narratives in all their iconic modes. * Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, USA *

Daugiau informacijos

An examination of the life writing which surrounds the 'model girl' in post-war Britain, including autobiography, memoir, and advice literature.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction


Part 1
2. 1960s Model Girl
3. Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History


Part 2
4. 'Real' Girls in Fashion Magazines
5. The Storytelling of Advice Literature

Part 3
6. Afterlives and Autobiographies
7. Retrospective Heroines of Fashion Exhibitions


8. Afterword


Notes
Bibliography
Index

Felice McDowell is Course Leader of the MA Fashion Cultures and Histories programme at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She is co-editor (with Leah Armstrong) of Fashioning Professionals (Bloomsbury, 2018).