Dressing the Resistance
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Author: Camille Benda
Weaving together historical and current protest movements across the globe, this title explores how everyday people and the societies they live in harness the visual power of dress to fight for radical change. Costume designer and dress historian Camille Benda analyses cultural movements and the clothes that defined them through over 150 archival images, photographs, and paintings that bring the history of activism to life.Dressing the Resistance is a celebration of how we use clothing, fashion and costume to ignite activism and spur social change. American suffragettes made and wore dresses from old newspapers printed with voting slogans. Male farmers in rural India wore their wives' saris while staging sit-ins on railroad tracks against government neglect. This book considers ancient Roman rebellions, the #MeToo movement, 20th century punk subcultures and Black Lives Matter marches.Includes a Foreword by Ane Crabtree, who was the costume designer for The Handmaid's Tale.
ISBN 9781616899882. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 216 pages. 175 colour ills. 20.3 x 26.7 cm.
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Weaving together historical and current protest movements across the globe, this title explores how everyday people and the societies they live in harness the visual power of dress to fight for radical change. Costume designer and dress historian Camille Benda analyses cultural movements and the clothes that defined them through over 150 archival images, photographs, and paintings that bring the history of activism to life.Dressing the Resistance is a celebration of how we use clothing, fashion and costume to ignite activism and spur social change. American suffragettes made and wore dresses from old newspapers printed with voting slogans. Male farmers in rural India wore their wives' saris while staging sit-ins on railroad tracks against government neglect. This book considers ancient Roman rebellions, the #MeToo movement, 20th century punk subcultures and Black Lives Matter marches.Includes a Foreword by Ane Crabtree, who was the costume designer for The Handmaid's Tale.
ISBN 9781616899882. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 216 pages. 175 colour ills. 20.3 x 26.7 cm.
available