Champagne supernovas : Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s renegades who remade fashion / Maureen Callahan.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2014Copyright date: 2014Description: 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781471137877
- 1471137872
- 746.9 CAL 23
- TT505.A1 C35 2014
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Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 746.9 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100635110 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The 1950s had rock 'n' roll and the 60s had the Beats. In the 70s and 80s, it was punk rock and modern art. But for the 1990s, it was all about fashion and Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen were the trio of rebel geniuses who made it great. Each had an amazing talent and each had demons that would jeopardize that same talent. Collectively, they represented a "moment" in fashion and pop culture that upended everything that had come before it.
In the tradition of pop-cultural histories like Girls Like Us and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Maureen Callahan explores a particular, pivotal time - the moment when the 1980s gave way to the 1990s, the alternative became the mainstream, and Gen X took over the reins of power in the fashion industry - through the lives of three people who would become both fashion icons and cautionary tales of the era. Callahan interviews insiders and reveals exclusive insights into the biggest dramas surrounding the most celebrated personalities of the decade: why Kate Moss and Johnny Depp broke up, how Marc Jacobs came through the crucible of the AIDS crisis, and what really drove Alexander McQueen to suicide.
Champagne Supernovas is the story of that singular time, as exemplified the lives of the three luminaries who forever changed the way we think about fashion and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
The maybe drawer -- The pink sheep of the family -- Fifteen year olds don't go to nightclubs -- Just another common bitch -- I am the '90s -- A culture person in the fashion world -- Why can't I have fun all the time? -- A catalog of horrors -- Grunge RIP -- A nice girl from Croydon -- Fashion people haven't got any brains -- A handbag that costs as much as a month's rent -- Cool Brittania -- Those skinny fashion bitches in the front row -- The decade of the dilettante -- The queen of Primrose Hill -- Paris does nothing for me -- It's the girl, not the clothes -- When the little glow in your face goes -- Can everybody not give Lee any drugs? -- These people are not your friends -- A supermodel just like McDonalds -- Paris for couture, London for suits, America for psychiatric hospitals.
The 1950s had rock 'n' roll and the 60s had the Beats. In the 70s and 80s, it was punk rock and modern art. But for the 1990s, it was all about fashion and Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen were the trio of rebel geniuses who made it great. Each had an amazing talent and each had demons that would jeopardize that same talent. Collectively, they represented a "moment" in fashion and pop culture that upended everything that had come before it.