Sixties Fashion: From 'Less is More' to Youthquake

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-29 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher:. Thames Hudson By the end of the decade. styles. markets. materials. demographics. inspirations and the very definition of fashion had been transformed The young generation wanted informal but stylish clothes. and self-expression was paramount. Fashion had given way to style. Jonathan Walford charts these revolutions. from Londons mod youthquake to the y-ys in Paris via the flower children and Afro movement in the US. and shows how a new internationalism changed the fashion landscape. as London. New York. Florence. San Francisco. Hong Kong. Madrid and Rome challenged the dominance of Paris haute couture.