1960s Model Girl

Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History

Felice McDowell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
9781350076297 (ISBN)

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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 Girl demonstrates how these can be applied to the study of fashion and shows how fashion studies opens new pathways to understanding identity and emergent British femininities. Drawing on a wealth of archival research, case studies include teen fashion magazines Petticoat and Model Girl; advice writing of model agent Lucie Clayton and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes; autobiographies of fashion models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy; and the Mary Quant exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2019-2020).

This book provides an intricate study of a varied and manifold figure whose impact and influence spreads further afield than a particular time, place and professional context. Closely attending to a range of model girl narratives, 1960s Model Girl illuminates the cultural past and, in turn, sheds light on our own historical present.

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).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Part 1
2. 1960s Model Girl
3. Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History

Part 2
4. Real Girls in Fashion Magazines
5. The Storytelling of Advice Literature

Part 3
6. Afterlives and Autobiographies
7. Retrospective Heroines of Fashion Exhibitions

8. Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	34 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 236 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781350076297 / 9781350076297
Zustand	Neuware