Welcome back from summer holidays!
We thought we would start Autumn off with some reading for you. As our Instagram followers will know, my book Fashion, Desire & Anxiety: Image & Morality (I B Tauris) in the 20th Century was recently published in Russian. To celebrate, we are giving away this PDF from the English edition.
The book explores the ways fashion challenges contemporary morality – through its design, representation and the way it is worn, covering examples from subculture to haute couture.
So we hope you enjoy reading the book’s Introduction – explaining the ways fashion simultaneously provokes desire and anxiety, plus a section from chapter one titled ‘Simplicity’ – which considers the tensions between luxury and restraint in fashion.
We hope you enjoy the extract, and look forward to resuming our regular Tuesday and Friday blog posts for you.
![ARNOLD_COVER](https://sites.courtauld.ac.uk/documentingfashion/files/2016/09/ARNOLD-COVER-326x504.jpg)
![Roger Fry, Nina Hamnett, 1917](https://sites.courtauld.ac.uk/documentingfashion/files/2016/09/Roger-Fry-Nina-Hamnett-1917-367x504.jpg)