Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness Paperback – 28 Feb. 2023

A seminal book for anyone interested in studying fashion. Caroline's mind is brilliant and well expressed in this publication. Would recommend all of her books and journal articles.

Buttoned up against the Great Pretender this text evinces a perfectly loitering cadence as if the socks of its author had been imprinted with the days of the week on which they were to be worn. Nor does the Lacanian rainbow concealed in the slanted ticket-pocket of this stingingly tailored paperback sit easily with a shuffling middlebrow readership. Away with them! Indeed, one is driven to wonder whether the ruffs and cuffs of such a ragmuffin parade as one sees any day in the Charing Cross Road can be construed as a kind of St Martin's doollally, an achingly rumbustious "garment" semiologically fusing (in a kind of pubic perambula) Julia Kristeva's famously lilac and conspicuously deviant nether garments with the abject "underpants" of Humbert Humbert. In the ensuing debate one fact emerges clearly. It is the Name of the Father. And so, perhaps, does Agent Provocateur meet CK in the ante rooms of Celine's howling impostures!

This is a fantastic book for any student who loves Alexander McQueen etc.It's well written, has some great if slightly small images but is well researched and informative.

I can't wait to give this book as a presant. It is a beautiful book and will be apreciated by both those in fashion and thoes who just like to have interesting books about fashion decoration their homes.

The point of writing is to communicate and the author fails to do that, using words and phrases like a smoke screen. This is a subject that interests me and I would like to be able to read about it without recourse to a translator. Five stars for the pictures (although Alexander McQueen dominates) and one star for the verbiage, and that is being generous.

i really love the photo references especially in reference to the text. this is a book about some of the darker edges of fashion and designers ideas. delves much more into the artistic side of fashion. broken up into aptly interesting titles as well as tight ideas well expressed. im really happy i bought this. one of my fav purchases in recent history.

Great study of fashion from an excellent author. If you are interested in fashion and art, this is a book for you.

That today fashion is on the edge of a further evolution should be clear to everybody- time of capitalism has arrived to an end and what we see in this book might help to understand the new shapes and meanings of this new world in which we live in.

Excellent book - well written and full of meaningful analysis