Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture

by Valerie Steele and Virginia Postrel

As one of the most alluring yet elusive concepts in contemporary style, glamour is an ideal that permeates our visual culture. This lavishly illustrated book radically revises our understanding of glamour in fashion, industrial design, and architecture. The volume traces glamour s trajectory from its historical middle-class origins to its present-day connotations of affluence and elegance. In doing so, glamour is established as a new critical category...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300106408
• ISBN13: 9780300106404
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 11.9"