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Anne Hollander


Born
in Cleveland, The United States
October 16, 1930

Died
July 06, 2014

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Genre
Art, History


Anne Helen Loesser Hollander was an American historian whose original work provided new insights into the history of fashion and costume and their relation to the history of art. She published numerous books on the history of fashion, modernity, and the body including Seeing Through Clothes and Sex and Suits.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 723 ratings · 68 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
Seeing Through Clothes
3.97 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1978 — 18 editions
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Sex and Suits
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Feeding The Eye: Essays
3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
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Fabric of Vision : Dress an...
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Moving Pictures
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“Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.”
― Anne Hollander
tags: fashion
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“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.”
― Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes
tags: clothes, disguises, fairy-fales
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“Despite all ideological attempts to transcend the mode in clothes, it is the lust of the eye for change, the power of the eye to make instant associations, and its need to demand and to create and combine images that hold clothing to significant and delicate shifts of dynamic visual form.”
― Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes
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