Nick Knight is an influential fashion photographer. His clients are among the top in fashion and design and include Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. The book offers a collection of Knight's images.
London Fashion Week is renowned for showing an edgier breed of fashion designer, and for celebrating cutting-edge couture that pushes the boundaries of convention. This book includes chapters devoted to designers and defines visually how Britishness informs their work, showing final collections, process work and studio space.
This title presents a handbook of the potent skinhead cult. It traces the development of the skinhead movement in England, describes the characteristics and behaviour of these gangs, and explains their attitudes towards school, the police, and the government.
Dramatic developments in the international communist world make a re-evaluation of Mao's thought from a left perspective an urgent task. This book addresses this task, challenging the dominance of conservative perspectives in China, while presenting alternative constructions which draw on modes of discourse characteristic of left scholarship.