Nautical Chic - Rilegato

Butchart, Amber Jane

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ISBN 10: 0500517800 ISBN 13: 9780500517802

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2015

Riassunto

From the modernist elegance of Coco Chanel to Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's punk-fuelled pirates, the appeal of nautical dress has cut a sartorial swathe for over two centuries. But how did garments such as the blue and white fisherman's top and peacoat cross over from uniform and workwear into fashionable dress? In Nautical Chic, the first and only book to look at the history of high fashion on the high seas, fashion historian Amber Jane Butchart traces the relationship between maritime dress and the fashionable wardrobe, uncovering stories, tracking the trends, and tracing the evolution of the style back to its roots in our seafaring past. Written in an accessible tone but grounded in years of research, Nautical Chic charts the nautical influence on fashion over five chapters, each of which considers a particular maritime profession: The Officer, The Sailor, The Fisherman, The Sportsman and The Pirate. Butchart weaves together politics, imperialism, war, leisure, trade, sport and seafaring adventure to tell the stories of garments - the duffle coat, the yellow fisherman's macintosh, the yacht club blazer - loaded with historical and cultural significance.

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From stripes to anchors and everything maritime in-between, we all love nautical - and it'll be big for summer. To celebrate the trend, a new coffee table book has been released called Nautical Chic - it's full of seafaring style. --Sunday Mail

A must-have for any fashion-lover. --Sunday Business Post

Chart[s] the relationship between clothes and our maritime history in the recently published Nautical Chic. --dailytelegraph.co.uk

Amber Jane Butchart looks at how seafaring fashions have infiltrated everyday wardrobes down the ages, and why iconic designers such as Coco Chanel and Vivienne Westwood have adopted seafaring styles into their modern-day collections. --Coast

Evocatively illustrated with stand out archive imagery as well as inspirational contemporary fashion photography, Nautical Chic is the definitive history of coastal couture. --Time Out

A new history of fashion inspired by the sea ... the author traces the many threads linking our seafaring past with out catwalk present, charting how official navy dress, fisherman's workwear, bohemian Rivera style and the rebel pirate have become some of our most enduring looks. --Sunday Telegraph

Filled with stand-out archive imagery as well as inspirational contemporary fashion photography, Nautical Chic is the definitive history of coastal couture and a covetable accessory in its own right. --Sunday Herald (Glasgow)

A new fashion history book that covers everything you need to know about stripy T-shirts and peacoats but were afraid to ask. --Guardian

From Chanel's coastal couture and Jean-Paul Gaultier's beefcake camp to Tommy Hilfiger's preppy classics, this is the first and only book to celebrate nautical fashion and the ways in which is has cut a sartorial swathe for over two centuries. --anothermag.com

When we heard that our friend Amber Butchart was releasing a new book, Nautical Chic, we knew it would float our boat. --Tatty Devine Blog

Explore the enduring appeal of this perennially popular trend in a display that sheds light on the myths, the reality and the romance of the high seas. --All-about-London

This book is a fascinating blend of politics, leisure and marine adventure and, although a scholarly work, it is written in a friendly, accessible tone. --Fashion Bookworm

Bright and breezy ... beautifully illustrated. --Simple Things

This fabulous collection of photos tracks the trend of nautical style through the sea's most enduring characters. --Daily Mail

It's written in an accessible style, but full of historical and cultural glory. --Glamour

Illustrations of historical dress, high-fashion editorials and shots from the catwalk make this feel like a special nautical edition of Vogue. --Sailing Today

L'autore:

Amber Butchart is a fashion historian working across cultural heritage, broadcasting and academia. She has contributed to productions for BBC 1 & 2, BBC Learning, Radio 4, Channel 4 and Sky Arts, from Making History and Woman's Hour to Great British Sewing Bee, and she presents a regular 'In Conversation' series at the V&A museum looking at issues concerning the clothed body in fashion and performance. She is an Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion, where she lectures across a number of areas concerning fashion, the body and contemporary culture, from the impact of blogging on fashion media to fashion and the grotesque. A former Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, Amber has spoken on the cultural history of fashion at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, British Museum, Royal Academy, British Library, Wellcome Collection, British Film Institute, and is a regular on the SHOWstudio fashion week panels. Shot by Vogue as a girl with great British style, her interest in antique clothing was ignited by working as Head Buyer for vintage clothing company Beyond Retro, and for 5 years she was a regular contributor to leading trend analysis company WGSN. As the red-haired half of the Sony-nominated Broken Hearts DJ duo Amber has graced stages across the globe for the likes of Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood and Louis Vuitton. Amber is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Association of Dress Historians.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0500517800
• ISBN 13: 9780500517802
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224