Contents

Introduction

1. Inspiration

2. The Fashionability of Taste

3. Threads

4. Liaisons

5. House Style

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Examining the imaginative and compelling way in which fashion has permeated 21st century culture, this book considers the relationship between fashion on the catwalk and architecture, interiors and products. Many fashion designers extend their aesthetic into interiors and products for the home as a natural progression from clothing the body. The home is now subject to the same directional trends as fashion, in part because so many designers are extending their practice to include interiors, as well as products and accessories. The fusion between fashion and interiors has never been more relevant. The proliferation of ideas, the speed of manufacture and an increasingly visually literate consumer have all resulted in interiors being subject to the same desire for innovation, change and fashionability as fashion. This investigation of the hectic dissemination of trends takes the reader on an eclectic, adventurous excursion into living with fashion.

Marnie Fogg works as a lecturer in fashion and culture at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of best selling Boutique: A Sixties Cultural Phenomenon and Print in Fashion: Design & Development in Fashion Textiles.