{"title":"Vicki Karaminas","description":"\u003cp\u003eVicki Karaminas explores the intersections of fashion, identity, and culture with a keen scholarly eye. Her works delve into the ways clothing and style articulate personal and social narratives, often highlighting themes of queerness and libertinism within contemporary and historical contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful analyses that challenge conventional views on fashion, enriched by cultural theory and critical perspectives. Her writing invites a deeper understanding of style not just as aesthetic, but as a powerful form of expression and resistance within the arts and culture landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"queer-style-by-adam-geczy-9781350365926","title":"Queer Style","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2013, \u003ci\u003eQueer Style\u003c\/i\u003e was ahead of its time. It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual identity, and remains key reading for scholars and students across fashion studies and the humanities more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, 10 years later, the authors have revisited their classic work and updated it to examine the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used as signifiers of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427455320300,"sku":"9781350365926","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350365926.jpg?v=1774767570"},{"product_id":"libertine-fashion-by-adam-geczy-9781350054073","title":"Libertine Fashion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLibertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship between libertinism as a social phenomenon and as a form of fashion. Taking the reader from early modernity to the present day, Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas reveal how the connection between clothing and the taboo, the erotic, and the forbidden is at the heart of \u003cem\u003eLibertine Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from the decadent courts of Charles II and Louis XV to the catwalks of the 21st century, \u003cem\u003eLibertine Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e examines literary and sartorial figures ranging from the Marquis de Sade and Lord Byron to Oscar Wilde, Josephine Baker, Colette, and Madonna. Focusing on libertinism as a sartorial practice and identity, this book traces the genealogy of the concept through the proto feminists of the English Reformation, the hedonistic decadents of the \u003cem\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Flappers of the Roaring 20s. The historical arc traverses the 1970s era of punk and glam, the shapeshifting personae of David Bowie, and the “disciplinary regimes” of Jean-Paul Gaultier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLooking at libertine practices and appearances with fresh eyes, this bracing and original book affords many new insights into transgressive style, and of the relationship between sexuality and clothing. Accessible and thoroughly researched, \u003cem\u003eLibertine Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on historical literature, film, fashion, philosophy, and popular culture. Offering a historical and philosophical grounding in contemporary forms of identity and dress, it is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596763480300,"sku":"9781350054073","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350054073-libertine-fashion.jpg?v=1777940945"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/vicki-karaminas.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}