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Caroline evans ma pgdippsych is a psychotherapist with a psychotherapy and counselling private practice in archway n19, north london. Evans, a professor at central saint martins college of art and design in london, explores why a lot of fashion imagery has become so dark and decadent. Fashion at the edge considersa range of cutting edge contemporary fashion. Caroline evans free people check uk phone, address. There is a vast literature on this topic, on which evans is an acknowledged expert. A smart book on fashion that might be described as karl marx meets alexander mcqueen, with chapters on haunting, phantasmagoria, glamour, and cruelty. A new look first edition by evans, caroline, thornton, minna isbn. Caroline evans analyses the work of experimental designers, this book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties.
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Caroline evans caroline evans is reader in fashion studies at central saint martins college of art and design, london. Fashion at the edge considersa range of cuttingedge contemporary fashion in. Answering these intriguing questions and many more, this pioneering book shows how the concepts of fashion and modernity are intimately linked. October 29, 20 248 pages, 7 12 x 10 100 color illus. On the other hand, there was, as caroline evans describes in fashion at the edge, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay.
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