The Way We Wore: A Life In Threads - Couverture rigide

Elms, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0330420321 ISBN 13 : 9780330420327

Editeur : Picador, 2005

Synopsis

'This is a love letter to the wayward creativity that has fired generations of British youth tribes - all those Mods, suedeheads, peanuts, punks, Teds and bomb-site dandies who dressed as though they owned the world. Nobody has written this incisively about kids dressing up since Tom Wolfe, nobody has written this lyrically about youth tribal lore since Colin MacInnes, and nobody has ever written a book this good about why all those long-gone Little Caesars had the desperate craving to look gorgeous.

Robert Elms has written the Fever Pitch of urban street fashion - his book really is as obsessive, and as beautiful, and as brilliant, as that. A wonderful book that should be read by everyone who believes that clothes are tools for living.'

- Tony Parsons

'This is not only the youth cult confessional to end them all , but also a comprehensive summary of everything that's happened to men's clothes in Britain over the last 30 years. If you grew up in the Seventies or Eighties, if you ever spent more on a pair of trousers than you needed to, if you ever got beaten up for having the wrong haircut, then this is the book for you. Funny accurate and touching.' - Dylan Jones, Editor GQ

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert is an award-winning journalist and travel writer and the daily host of a much respected radio show on BBC London. He was formerly a feature writer in the early, ground-breaking days of style magazine, Face, a journalist at NME during the Parsons/Burchill period and the man who gave Spandau Ballet their name. He lives in Camden with his wife and children

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0330420321
• ISBN 13: 9780330420327
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible