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Tartan
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Series: Textiles that Changed the World
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Tartan is ideal for readers interested in arts, culture, fashion history, and Scottish heritage, appealing to both academic audiences and general readers fascinated by the intersections of tradition and modernity in textile design.
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An outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. – Telegraph
Featuring new insights and an additional chapter on masculinities, this updated edition of Tartan revitalizes discussions about the fabric’s traditional, sentimental Highland origins and its deliberate subversion by contemporary designers.
Tartan’s history has made it uniquely capable of expressing both conformity and subversion, tradition and innovation. Through positioning tartan within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts— from the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria’s royal endorsement, to the fabric’s influence on Westwood and McQueen and a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi—Jonathan Faiers traces tartan's development from clanship to contemporary fashion and its enormous domestic and global impact.
Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan demonstrates that this most traditional and radical fabric has become one of extraordinary versatility and far-reaching appeal.
Series: Textiles that Changed the World
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Praised as "an outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan" by the Telegraph, this book has been described as a "rare treat" and "readable, enjoyable academic text" by Selvedge. The International Herald Tribune calls it an "intriguing study" combining the serious with the saucy, while the Scotsman Magazine regards it as a "great alternative" to standard clan guides. Reviewers highlight its fascinating and thought-provoking nature, with Military Illustrated noting it as "a treasure trove of Tartan."
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781350193772
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 November 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Illustration: 163 colour illus
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 1040g
Pages: 360
About the Author
Jonathan Faiers is Professor of Fashion Thinking and Co-Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is the editor of the journal Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, a member of the V&A’s Fashion Publishing Advisory Group Board, and a member of the Costume Colloquium Advisory Committee, Florence, Italy.
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