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swinging sixties :: book "in april 1966, time famously touted london as the new world center of style. forty years later, this book reconsiders the roles played by designers like mary quant, celebrities like twiggy, boutiques like biba, photographers like david bailey, magazines, + filmmakers in promoting a new, more relaxed, more colorful way of dressing that reverberated around the world. illustrated with key pieces from the v + a's fashion collection plus contemporary photos, posters, + ephemera, the book relates fashion to the rapidly changing social, economic, + aesthetic context of the times, arguing for the central role it played not just on carnaby street, but in 60's pop culture. by ~mod*mom~ at 9.6.06 © 4 Comments:I've been umming and ahhing over this book for a few weeks now, but I think I'll take the plunge. I'm supposed to be saving up for the San Diego comicon! By Will Kane, at 6/11/2006 4:32 AM
i haven't seen inside the book yet. By mod*mom, at 6/11/2006 9:54 AM
The comic convention is at the end of July. By Will Kane, at 6/18/2006 5:49 AM you mean you don't live in the US? By mod*mom, at 6/18/2006 10:22 AM |