Fashioning the Dandy

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781839984440
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress. The dandy is described as the prototypical hero of the modern cult of celebrities. From clubbing manners, the techniques of virtual aristocratism, urban flâneurs and the correct way to examine people, Vainshtein walks us through optical duels and the techniques of visual assessment at social gatherings. Readers will learn about strategies of subversive behaviour found in practical jokes, the fine art of noble scandal, dry wit, bare-faced impudence and mocking politeness. Looking at dandyism as a nineteenth-century literary movement, Vainshtein examines representation of dandies in fiction. Finally, a large section is devoted to Russian and Soviet dandyism and the dandies of today.

Olga Vainshtein is a fashion historian. She works at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.