Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness Essay

In Caroline Evans’ book, Fashion at the Edge, she looks at the fashions from all ages but goes most deeply into the fashion of the 1990’s and the themes that were very apparent in that particular time. She expands on these themes in chapters throughout her book such as Deathliness, Spectacle, Horror and Glamour. She relates all these themes back to the influences of the 20th century and the rise of the commodity obsessed culture, modernism and capitalism and the metaphorical death it brings to our