{"product_id":"androgyne-fashion-and-gender-9780500519356","title":"Androgyne: Fashion and Gender","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick Mauries\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fashion \u0026amp; Accessories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn January 2011, Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture runway show ended with the image of a willowy blonde bride in a diaphanous gown. The bride was a man, and one of the first models to walk for both men's and women's collections. The event marked the start of a trend. \"\u003cem\u003eThis ad is gender neutral\u003c\/em\u003e,\" proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; \"\u003cem\u003eI resist definitions\u003c\/em\u003e,\" announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year, while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith wearing a skirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe art of Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau, the writings of Oscar Wilde, and the mystic Jos phin P ladan prove that the turn of the previous century was as compelled by androgyny as this one. From the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, the genders have blended: from Berlin in the 1920s to Hollywood of the 1930s with Garbo and Dietrich; from the 1940s Bright Young Things to the androgynous pop stars of the 1970s, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Mauries presents a cultural history of androgyny--accompanied by a striking selection of more than 120 images, from nineteenth-century painting to contemporary fashion photography--drawing on the worlds of art and literature to give us a deeper understanding of the strange but timeless human drive to escape from defined categories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45047027597463,"sku":"9780500519356","price":3630.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780500519356.webp?v=1769219514","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/androgyne-fashion-and-gender-9780500519356","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}