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100 1 $aBlau, Herbert.
245 10 $aNothing in itself :$bcomplexions of fashion /$cHerbert Blau.
260 $aBloomington, Ind. :$bIndiana University Press,$c℗♭1999.
300 $axiii, 302 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm.
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490 1 $aTheories of contemporary culture ;$vv. 24
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-290) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Troubling over Appearances --$tThe New Look and the Perpetual Blush --$tMetaphysics of the Hemline: Temporality, Modernity, and the Horror Vacui --$tDressing Up, Dressing Down: "Why do you want me to carry on?" --$tVicissitudes of the Look --$tWhat Remains to Be Seen.
520 $aWhat Herbert Blau suggests, in Nothing in Itself, is that fashion itself, today, has been anticipating and redefining, in the dazzle on the runway, or even in ready-to-wear, the terms in which it is critiqued, while sometimes giving the impression that it is inseparable from critique; in short, there is little to be said of fashion that is not somehow visible in fashion, though even in the mainstream we may call it antifashion. Which is all the more reason to look at the clothes. The book does so copiously, with a fastidious eye to style, as if nothing could be said of a garment, no appropriate fabric of thought, without the felt sensation.
520 8 $aMeanwhile, if the theatricality of fashion, or the "fashion system," is now belabored in cultural studies, there are other seductive issues--recurring in history and, like the rise and fall of the hemline, approaching the metaphysical--that come with dress in its fascination-effect. As Blau sees it, this will inevitably return us to the validities, artful vanities, and deceits of appearance. No more than appearance, "nothing in itself," that fashion has substance, complex and elusive substance, is the thematic of this book, which puts another complexion on the subject, the look, and the look that incites the look, in high style, street style, classical elegance or fetishistic chic, from farthingale and corset to drop-dead glamour, power suits, waifishness, and grunge.
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