- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Overlook TP (1. Oktober 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0879517956
- ISBN-13: 978-0879517953
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,8 x 14 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.213.921 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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London fashion designer Westwood's "impishly erotic couture" won her international acclaim in the '80s and '90s, but she made her first and perhaps most indelible mark on popular culture in the '70s, when she, along with her notoriously Svengalian partner, Malcolm McLaren, was instrumental in shaping both the ethos and the iconography of punk rock. Operating under the philosophy that "You can never go too far," the two used their SEX boutique to launch outrageous fashion trends that became the most visible markers of underground chic. Rock critic Vermorel (The Secret History of Kate Bush) here parlays a decades-long acquaintance with Westwood into an intriguing biography that is noteworthy for its focus on its subject's engagement with the intellectual currents that seized the countercultural imagination at various stages in her career. He also charts her stormy but creatively fertile relationship with McLaren and explores the evolution of her philosophy of fashion. Utilizing an unusual technique that works surprisingly well, Vermorel devotes the second half of his narrative to an account of his own coming-of-age under the auspices of countercultural ideologies. Westwood becomes a disappointingly peripheral figure in this section, but Vermorel's self-scrutiny permits a sustained and highly insightful examination of the kinds of ideas that fueled Westwood's own creative imagination. "The secret which McLaren and Westwood learned by heart," Vermorel concludes, is "how to paint your subjectivity in the codes of culture and foment an insurrection of like-minded solitudes." Photos.
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From Booklist
For reasons worthy of a book of their own, fashion models and designers have become the cultural heroes of the 1990s and, subsequently, movies stars, television hosts, and biography subjects. English pop-culture professor Fred Vermorel adds to the canon with his "new journalism" biography of Westwood. The British designer is perhaps best remembered for promoting (with arts dilettante Malcolm McLaren) the punk rock band the Sex Pistols in the 1970s. Westwood is an entertaining biographical subject, with her Horatio Algeresque story of working-class girl turned fashion hero and darling of the international jet set. The book is a good record of fashion history, for Westwood drew from eighteenth-and nineteenth-century notions of fashion to create her unique look. Less compelling are her pseudophilosophic musings, dubbed "situationism" (essentially sloganeering and other offensive behavior to create confrontation and controversy), and her own elitist appraisals of her "genius." Still, Vermorel, a childhood friend of Westwood's brother, has compiled a witty oral history of the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and some of its most memorable heroes. Ted Leventhal
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A note from Maureen Farquhar,
Von Maureen Farquhar (Huyton) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Vivienne Westwood (Taschenbuch)
Dissapointment is the only word that I can politely use to describe this book. Even if you love Vivienne Westwood, I would still advise you to avoid this as it is pure indulgence on the part of Vermorel. It is beyond me how a book about a fashion couturier can have so few pictures and possibly so few facts? please frd come back to earth. I would advise that if you are going to buy a book on Westwood, I would suggest Gene Krell - which although is about 10 times shorter is positively more rewarding and has colour plates. ciao,Maureen Farquhar. (maureenfarquhar@yahoo.com) Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Don't buy this book.,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Vivienne Westwood (Taschenbuch)
This is a really lame book by a self-seeking, delusional half-wit. If you've got nothing better to do you could look at it, but then why not buy some paint and watch it dry instead. Fred Vermorel needs to move beyond 1968 and realize that situationism is for tired, old has-beens. Why hasn't he read any social or cultural theory since 1972? This guy is a total waster.
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Vivienne who? Read about ME!!!,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Vivienne Westwood (Taschenbuch)
Although this is billed as a biography of Vivenne Westwood, this is more an autobiography of it's enfant-terrible author, Fred Vermorel. The first half, in true Vermorel style, appropriates quotes, both in- and out-of-context, to build a montage picture of the not-really-so-rebellious-ma'am Viv Westwood. But hey! you don't really want to read about her, do you? Let's read about its author. And that is just what Fred lets you do for more than half this book. After dispensing with the Westwood/Maclaren clothing/music/attitude revolution in the first hundred pages or so, he then launches into a brief history of My Life As A Teenage Situationist. The thing is, this is the best part of the book, biased, (mildly) egocentric, a real look into the mind of someone who genuinely believed in changing the world, or people's perception of it, through extreme measures and practical jokes. OK some of it may be archetypal teenage rebel stuff, but this is one of the best accounts of the "Art-outsider" and the formation of the punk attitude around. Pop sociologists: add this to your list of required reading along with Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming" and Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces"
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