イギリスのタブロイド紙である、Daily Mirror。 本書では1960年代より当時のデイリーミラーに載っていた、ファッションページをスクラップ形式で まとめ、そこから当時の1960年代レディースファッションシーンを探求しています。
50年代の暗めの雰囲気が一転して、デザイナーブランドも多く誕生し、レディースのファッション自体も大衆化し現代のシーンにつながるきっかけが読み取れます。
如何にも60年代らしい、鮮やかな雰囲気スウィンギング・ロンドンを感じさせます。
▫️Sex, Sense and Nonsense: Felicity Green on the 60′s Fashion Scene / 192 pages / ¥4,280
Felicity Green brought a new, original voice and look to the fashion pages of the ’60s’ Daily Mirror. For the first time in newspaper history she created fashion pages designed to appeal to both sexes as the circulation soared to more than 5 million copies a day. Great pictures, great photographers, top designers, top models – Felicity made these Swinging ’60s fashion stories FUN! bringing the glamour and style of glossy magazines to the Mirror. These award-winning pages broke the fashion mould and captured the stellar time when London fashion conquered the world. Under Felicity Green’s by-line comes stories of the stars of the ’60s – they’re all talking in this original book: Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki, Vidal Sassoon, Twiggy, Terry O’Neill, and a sparkling foreword by Barbara Hulanicki, of Biba fame, tells the story of a fashion collaboration/friendship whose gingham dress made fashion history. The ‘Big Names’ from the ’60s are all here in this fun, entertaining and informative book which tells it how it really was; revel in close-up and very personal recollections. Sex Sense and Nonsense is an amusing, revealing look at the ’60s as you’ve never seen them before.
