1960s Model Girl
narrative identities in fashion, time and history
$348.51
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2025
Summary
1960s Model Girl: Fashion, Identity, and the Making of a Cultural Icon
Examining histories of post-war Britain, fashion, modelling, photography and popular culture, 1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, auto/biographies and fashion exhibits.
Introducing theories of history, life-writing and narrative identity, 1960s Model Gi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350076297 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1350076295 |
| Author: | Felice McDowell |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 162mm x 18mm |
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This book offers fascinating insights into the material and affective dimensions of the 1960s Model Girl. It is a richly illustrated, textured examination of this central sixties figure, drawing on a wide range of material resources to capture the appeal of the model as ‘dream, profession and aspiration’.
* Joanne Entwistle, King’s College London, UK *This thoughtful examination provides a crucial genealogy of that era’s Model Girl, a figure central to our understanding of the complex period that was the Sixties. McDowell’s consideration of the model—subject and object, original and copy, material and abstract, ordinary and extraordinary, person and process—allows for a keen analysis of these “girls”’ self/representational practices, smartly exposing the ambivalences and interstices of model/girl fashion narratives in all their iconic modes.
* Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, USA *About The Author
Felice McDowell
Felice McDowell is Course Leader of the MA Fashion Cultures and Histories programme at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She is co-editor (with Leah Armstrong) of Fashioning Professionals (Bloomsbury, 2018).
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