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Overview
The combination of fashion and performance is one of the most powerful forces in 20th-century culture. From movie legends and dancers, to Broadway leading ladies and vaudeville acts, few people in the last hundred years have been more widely admired and copied than performers. It is for this reason that fashion designers often use the stage and screen to showcase new looks.Packed full of stars, sequins, and glamorous gowns, Performing Arts celebrates the performers from the stage and screen who have influenced fashion, from artists like Isadora Duncan and Josephine Baker, who popularized extreme looks, to fashion icons like Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, who changed the course of international style.
Examines twentieth-century fashion trends for entertainers, describing how they changed through the decades and influenced what the general public wore.
Editorials
Children's Literature
Sometimes we forget how much we are all influenced by the movies we watch, and the shows we see in the theatre. One of the ways in which the performing arts have affected our lives in a very tangible way is fashion. This fascinating and well researched book provides us with an absorbing look at how this has come about and gives examples of where it has occurred. In the "Roaring 20's" Clara Bow created the flapper images that we associate so well with that time. Thousands of women cut their hair, painted their lips and put on shorter, shimmering little dresses so that they could look like the glamorous Clara. We learn that the break-dancing rage in the 1980's was the root for the fashion for sporty, tough clothing accessorized with huge sneakers and lots of gold chains. It is interesting to find out how much we are influenced by the performing arts, how quickly we all take something up and then drop it when something new appears on the scene. In the classroom, students can some up with examples of their own on how fashion has been influenced by dancers, movie stars, and singers. This is one of the books in the twelve volume "Twentieth-Century Developments in Fashion and Costume" series. 2002, Mason Crest Publishers Inc,— Marya Jansen-Gruber
Book Details
Published
October 28, 2002
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pages
64
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781590844267