BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Fashion

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This magnificent volume – the seventh to appear in the Oxford series under the general editorship of Zachary Leader – offers an interpretation of literary biographical writing from 1945 to 2020. It is, I think, best seen as a literary history of the period rather than a history of life writing strictu sensu: Patrick Hayes’s interests are unashamedly literary and his account of writing in which the biographical and a…

Reference · Wikidata

popular style or practice in clothing, personal adornment, or decorative arts

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging. As a multifaceted term, fashion describes an industry, designs, aesthetics, and trends.

Book · DOAB

Han Suyin (1916/1917–2012) became a household name when Love is A Many-Splendored Thing, the Hollywood rendition of her novel won several awards in 1956. The study of Han Suyin went out of fashion for a while, but it has recently been revitalised, especially in Singapore and Malaysia. Kuek pays attention to The Crippled Tree autobiographical series, delineating her two-track narrative of her family saga against the …

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Issue 39.2 of the Review for Religious, March 1980.