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John Harvey: Peacockery, 7 May 1998
The Man of Fashion: Male Peacocks and Perfect Gentlemen
by Colin McDowell.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £29.95, October 1997,0 500 01797 2 Show More
by Colin McDowell.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £29.95, October 1997,
“... of dress version of workwear (which, McDowell notes, ‘possesses true integrity and power’). Bertolt Brecht sits forward at a piano, close-cropped, young, in a close-fitting lapel-less leather jacket, and, with a fat capitalist’s cigar between his teeth, seems to be enjoying the slightly preposterous pantomime of his own fashion statement. Not ... ”