Artist , rebel, dandy : men of fashion /

This book celebrates the pleasures of the sharp dressed man, from the discreet sophistication of the consummately elegant George Bryan Beau Brummell in the early 19th century to the diverse, highly personal flair of the tastemakers who color the landscape of menswear today. Since the word dandy came...

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Main Author: Irvin, Kate
Other Authors: Brewer, Laurie Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design , c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Glenn O'Brien muses on Beau Brummell
  • Patti Smith muses on Charles Baudelaire
  • Fabricating a dream: two centuries of sketching and defining the dandy / Kate Irvin
  • Merlin Holland muses on Oscar Wilde
  • Horace D. Ballard Jr. muses on W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Mark Samuels Lasner muses on Max Beerbohm
  • The politics of fashion and the pleasures of youth: young men and their clothes, 1814-1914 / Christopher Breward
  • Hugo Vickers muses on Cecil Beaton
  • Daniela Morera muses on Andy Warhol
  • Andrew Wilson muses on Malcolm McLaren
  • The material education of the dandy: from Beau Brummell to the tweed run / Laurie Anne Brewer
  • Scott Schuman muses on Luciano Barbera
  • Philip Hoare muses on John Waters
  • Viktor Wynd muses on Sabastian Horsley
  • Derrick Miller muses on Motofumi "Poggy" Kogi
  • "Fresh-dressed like a million buck": black dandyism and hip-hop / Monica L. Miller
  • Gigi Gray muses on Ouigi Theodore
  • James Sherwood muses on Guy Hills
  • Dirk Standen muses on Waris Ahluwalia.