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Title

The Worn archive / editor Serah-Marie McMahon with Gwendolen Stegelmann ; art director Alexandra Niit.

Publication

[New York?] : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McMahon, Serah-Marie
• Stegelmann, Gwendolen.
• Niit, Alexandra

Description

398 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm

Summary

The four-hundred-page book features the best content from the journal's first fourteen issues, assembled by WORN'S founder and editor in chief, Serah-Marie McMahon. Articles penned by a host of unique contributors (academics, writers, curators, and artists) touch on topics as wide-ranging as the relationship between feminism and fashion, discourse on hijabs, how to tie a tie, the history of flight attendants, and textile conservation. With eclectic photo shoots featuring "real" models, striking illustrations, and whimsical layouts, every page is a joyful, creative approach to clothing. The WORN Archive is the ultimate cultural style map for those who don't want to be told how to dress but are seeking a transformative understanding of why we wear what we do.

Uniform Title

Worn fashion journal.

Alternative Title

Worn archive, a fashion journal about the art, ideas, and history of what we wear

Subjects

• Worn fashion journal
• Fashion and art > Periodicals
• Fashion > Periodicals

Note

• "A Fashion Journal about the Art, Ideas, and History of What We Wear"--Cover.

Contents

Fashion is personal : The mom project: Paying sartorial homage to the women who gave us style ; Address & redress: the story of a brokenhearted dress ; Heaps on heaps: artist and eclectic collector Grant Heaps talks work, wardrobe, hoarding, and underpants ; Make me real: important style lessons learned from Courney Love ; Time shift: WORN editor Sony Abrego models the finest from her closet ; Everything I know about fashion (I learned from my mother): a column about observation, emulation, and the lessons we learn from the people we love -- Fashion is practical : Washing is your friend: WORN answers your laundry quandaries ; For the love of the line: politics, progress, and why laundry's simplest pleasure isn't always cut and dried ; Live and let dry: the dirty truth about dry cleaning ; Well heeled: a wormette gets her boots fixed ; Gordian not: a tidily tangle-free guide to tying ties ; Devil with the blue jeans on: the art of repairing denim ; Home Ec is where the heart is: what we lost when we forgot how to sew -- Fashion is art : Mark it on your skin: Artist Andrea Vander Kooij talks femininity, sexuality, art, and fashion ; Exhibitionist: how fashion fits into the world of museums ; Puffy pastries: Artist Susan Belle wants a crazy dessert-shaped outfit ; Hear now a curious dream: wearing the stuff of imagination ; Brutally individualistic: revisiting the Marchesa Casati, famous and forgotten performance artist ; Out of bounds: style is a team effort ; Second-hand stories: Conceptual artist Iris Häusler discusses the role of clothing in her work and life -- Fashion is object : Down the button hole: closing in on collectors fascinated by fasteners ; The revolution will be plasticized: bakelite as it was and is ; Low vamps and peep toes: why the '40s pump is perfectly proportioned and pin-up preferred ; Safety dance: how the safety pin became a revolutionary fashion accessory ; Pointed examples: some advances in men's collars in the last hundred years or so ; Frou frou shoe: vintage store owner Matthew Morad has a lot of shoes ; To conserve and protect: Unpacking the multi-layered world of textile conservation ; Knowitall: object analysis in column form -- Fashion is design : Tangled up in shoes: an interview with Canada's king of sole, John Fluevog ; Typoglycemia: fashion designer Angie Johnson wears her label's prize-winning collection ; Art and sole : A WORN fashion journal exhibit at the Bata Shoe Museum ; Broken frames: fashion in [stopped] motion ; The elusive Mr. Frederick: searching for the story behind Hollywood's naughties lingerie label.

Call Number

JFD 16-2795

ISBN

• 9781770461505 (pbk.)
• 1770461507 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013464379

OCLC

861535261

Title

The Worn archive / editor Serah-Marie McMahon with Gwendolen Stegelmann ; art director Alexandra Niit.

Publisher

[New York?] : Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Edition

First paperback edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

McMahon, Serah-Marie, editor.

Stegelmann, Gwendolen.

Niit, Alexandra, art director.

Cover Title

Worn archive, a fashion journal about the art, ideas, and history of what we wear

Added Title

Worn fashion journal.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-2795