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Friends, fashion & fabulousness : the making of an Australian style / Sally Gray.

By: Publisher: North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xii, 317 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925588347 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Friends, fashion and fabulousness
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 746.92 23
Summary: Australia in the 1970s was 'the most creative place in the world' stated the acclaimed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book, first in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the1970s-90s. With limited material resources, an abundance of originality and style, and seemingly unlimited creative energy, a group of young people helped transform the cultural landscape of inner Sydney. They recast the image of Australian fashion, linked with fashion and identity politics, established the look of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, and reclaimed the urban. How did they do it? Linking fashion, art, sexual politics and diverse urban subcultures, Sally Grey describes a restlessly creative, culturally influential group of friends and collaborators as they moved to and from Melbourne, Paris, Sydney, London, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York, and places in between. Four friends in particular form her central narrative: fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson and artists Peter Tully and David McDiarmid. Their creative trajectories and interactions, their collaborations, passion and politics, continue to resonate in the present.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 746.92 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67995

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.

Australia in the 1970s was 'the most creative place in the world' stated the acclaimed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book, first in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the1970s-90s. With limited material resources, an abundance of originality and style, and seemingly unlimited creative energy, a group of young people helped transform the cultural landscape of inner Sydney. They recast the image of Australian fashion, linked with fashion and identity politics, established the look of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, and reclaimed the urban. How did they do it? Linking fashion, art, sexual politics and diverse urban subcultures, Sally Grey describes a restlessly creative, culturally influential group of friends and collaborators as they moved to and from Melbourne, Paris, Sydney, London, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York, and places in between. Four friends in particular form her central narrative: fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson and artists Peter Tully and David McDiarmid. Their creative trajectories and interactions, their collaborations, passion and politics, continue to resonate in the present.

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