Lucy Moyse Ferreira is Lecturer in Fashion Media and Digital Innovation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter One: AssaultBeauty Doctoring: Advertising Violence and Femininity Colour: The Assault of Modernity Fighting Back: Elsa Schiaparelli Chapter Two: FragmentationDividing the Mind and Body Fragmented Modernity in the City Beauty, Art, and the Isolated Eye The Classical versus Fragmented BodyChapter Three: EroticismExploring Eroticism Fashion, Femininity, and Fetishism Eroticising the BodyChapter Four: AbsenceFashion and MourningSinister ShadowsDeath on the BodyConclusionBibliographyIndex

A fascinating discussion of fashion's transformations in the period ... This book gets to the heart of what fashion was about, then and for the decades that followed.

Lucy Moyse Ferreira is Lecturer in Fashion Media and Digital Innovation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter One: AssaultBeauty Doctoring: Advertising Violence and Femininity Colour: The Assault of Modernity Fighting Back: Elsa Schiaparelli Chapter Two: FragmentationDividing the Mind and Body Fragmented Modernity in the City Beauty, Art, and the Isolated Eye The Classical versus Fragmented BodyChapter Three: EroticismExploring Eroticism Fashion, Femininity, and Fetishism Eroticising the BodyChapter Four: AbsenceFashion and MourningSinister ShadowsDeath on the BodyConclusionBibliographyIndex

A fascinating discussion of fashion's transformations in the period ... This book gets to the heart of what fashion was about, then and for the decades that followed.

Lucy Moyse Ferreira is Lecturer in Fashion Media and Digital Innovation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter One: AssaultBeauty Doctoring: Advertising Violence and Femininity Colour: The Assault of Modernity Fighting Back: Elsa Schiaparelli Chapter Two: FragmentationDividing the Mind and Body Fragmented Modernity in the City Beauty, Art, and the Isolated Eye The Classical versus Fragmented BodyChapter Three: EroticismExploring Eroticism Fashion, Femininity, and Fetishism Eroticising the BodyChapter Four: AbsenceFashion and MourningSinister ShadowsDeath on the BodyConclusionBibliographyIndex

A fascinating discussion of fashion's transformations in the period ... This book gets to the heart of what fashion was about, then and for the decades that followed.