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portada Bring no Clothes
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781802061147

Bring no Clothes

Unknown Author (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

Bring no Clothes - Unknown Author

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Synopsis "Bring no Clothes"

p Why do we wear what we wear To answer this question we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century when fashion as we know it was born br br In i Bring No Clothes i acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group the collective of creatives and thinkers who were in the vanguard of a social and sartorial revolution Each of them offers fresh insight into the constraints and possibilities of fashion today from the stifling repression of E M Forster s top buttons to the creativity of Vanessa Bell s wayward hems from the sheer pleasure of Ottoline Morrell s lavish dresses to the clashing self consciousness of Virginia Woolf s orange stockings from Duncan Grant s liberated play with nudity to John Maynard Keynes s power play in the traditional suit As Porter carefully unpicks what they wore and how they wore it we see how clothing can be a means of artistic intellectual and sexual liberation or conversely a tool for patriarchal control br br As he travels through libraries archives attics and studios Porter uncovers new evidence about his subjects revealing them in a thrillingly intimate vivid new light And as he begins making his own clothing his own persp

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