{"product_id":"torn-fashion-postmodernism","title":"Torn: Fashion and Postmodernism","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the beginning of the 21st century, fashion has undergone a paradoxical shift: it has grown creatively impoverished despite becoming more culturally relevant. Increasingly, the industry’s output feels listless, unexciting, like a pastiche of past styles, not genuine innovation. What caused this? How did fashion design get reduced to logoed merch? Why does spectacle outweigh reality? How did business priorities come to eclipse creativity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEugene Rabkin — founder of \u003cem\u003eStyleZeitgeist\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and noted fashion journalist, lecturer, and critic whose work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Business of Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e — offers an unflinching answer. \u003cem\u003eTorn: Fashion and Postmodernism\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the postmodern turn, with its dismantling of hierarchies and embracing of commerciality, its democratization of taste and reliance on irony and poptimism, has undermined fashion. Across 10 incisive chapters, these pages trace the industry’s journey from an era that produced Alexander McQueen’s theatrical genius, Helmut Lang’s modernism, and Martin Margiela’s conceptual rigor to an era dominated by corporations and celebrities. Along the way, Rabkin shows how the image is decoupled from its substance, how commerce has overridden editorial authority, and how fashion’s relationship with the arts has shifted from symbiotic to parasitic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zero Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358368571732,"sku":"A8B-37938","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/rabkin-torn.jpg?v=1790814993","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/torn-fashion-postmodernism","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}