Wild: Fashion Untamed
by Andrew Bolton
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"Wild: Fashion Untamed examines the practical, spiritual, psychosexual, and socioeconomic underpinnings of fashion's fascination with animals and birds. Skins, furs, feathers, and animal prints have played a major role in the history of fashion. In this volume's five chapters, deer, tigers, zebras, leopards, spiders, serpents, crocodiles, and the plumage of a variety of birds are referenced in examples that convey how artists and designers have found inspiration from sources in prehistory, show more ancient mythology, and native cultures and have quoted the physical and sexual characteristics of the animal kingdom to evoke ideals of femininity. Examples from the history of art portraying the fashions and symbolisms of their time are discussed in concert with creations by contemporary designers."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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The text of this book, published to accompany the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2004-2005 exhibition of the same name, is supported with 95 color and many b&w illustrations documenting humanity's obsession with animals in clothing from prehistoric times to the present
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- 2004-11-10
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