Description:
This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. New and 'liberated' lifestyles and a fascination with 'inventive clothes' united diverse writers, photographers, and art critics at the time. Studies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Man Ray and Virginia Woolf are included.
Review Quotes:
Paola Colaiacomo's book is a remarkable and vital study of Bloomsbury and its afterlife in literature, art and fashion. It moves subtly from Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry on to Katherine Mansfield and Luigi Pirandello. The illumination of a crucial period in modern culture is accomplished with skill and eloquence. (Harold Bloom)
Colaiacomo provides fascinating new insights regarding fashion's relationship with modernism and the trauma of war. (Valerie Steele, Director, The Museum at FIT and Editor in Chief, Fashion Theory)