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Elvis: The King of Fashion by Lorraine Gibson (Hardback)
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9781399049849
Published:
30 Aug 2024
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
224 pages
Dimensions:
234x156mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
Author:
A highly engaging homage to the iconic style of Elvis Presley, who shook up the world of music and fashion, triggering a cultural revolution that stopped 1950s America in its tracks. Born into poverty, his voice of liquid gold and show-stopping appearance propelled him into a life of extreme wealth. Elvis's extraordinary story - told through a fashion lens - celebrates the shy, lonely boy who awakened an entire generation to forbidden fruit. The defiant hair, the sultry good looks, the gender-ambivalent outfits - even the famous sideburns of the man who would be King - are all considered in loving detail. From impoverished scamp and teenage antihero in pink, through Hollywood heartthrob and sensual leather-clad rock star, to caped superhero in Vegas jumpsuits, the author describes his clothes with as much joy as she does his journey through the decades. A contemporary take on the evolution of Elvis the Showman, featuring interviews
A highly engaging homage to the iconic style of Elvis Presley, who shook up the world of music and fashion, triggering a cultural revolution that stopped 1950s America in its tracks.
Born into poverty, his voice of liquid gold and show-stopping appearance propelled him into a life of extreme wealth.
Elvis's extraordinary story - told through a fashion lens - celebrates the shy, lonely boy who awakened an entire generation to forbidden fruit.
The defiant hair, the sultry good looks, the gender-ambivalent outfits - even the famous sideburns of the man who would be King - are all considered in loving detail.
From impoverished scamp and teenage antihero in pink, through Hollywood heartthrob and sensual leather-clad rock star, to caped superhero in Vegas jumpsuits, the author describes his clothes with as much joy as she does his journey through the decades.
A contemporary take on the evolution of Elvis the Showman, featuring interviews with people who knew, met and dressed him, and analysis of the 2022 hit movie, Elvis.
A rags-to-riches tale, forged in the hardship and music of the poor South, it personifies the American Dream, retold with style by an author raised on Elvis's songs and movies and who walked in his shoes through Memphis to discover they really were two-toned.
Set in a fascinating period in time, it looks at his powerful legacy, preserved by his devoted fans, and the films and tributes still being produced in his honour today.
About the Author: Lorraine Gibson, an award-winning journalist and freelance writer with more than 20 year's experience, is widely published in print and online. Author of Elvis: The King of Fashion, the must-have book about the man who was and remains the most iconic solo performer on the planet, she has a passion for fashion, history and, well, Elvis. Growing up listening to her parents' Elvis records and watching his films during the school holidays, she became fascinated with his colourful outfits and unconventional appearance. As a grown up, she decided to write about how his love of clothes influenced and defined him as much as the music that surrounded him did. Part of her research took her to Memphis to meet the people who knew him - in particular Hal Lansky, whose father, Bernard was known as the Clothier to The King - and to follow in Elvis's two-tone footsteps. The result is her second book, Elvis: The King of Fashion - a fresh, insightful, humane and immensely-readable take on the life of the man born to be King, as seen through a fashion lens. Like its subject, it relishes stylish details and resonates with a constant backbeat of the music of the South, the country, blues, gospel and soul that Elvis instinctively fused into his own unique rock & roll sound - a sound that shook up the world. Elvis: The King of Fashion follows Lorraine's acclaimed debut book, Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography with foreword by Bear Grylls OBE, an examination of the light and shade that surrounds the controversial and wildly eccentric founder of the Scouts. Living close to the island location of Baden-Powell's first, secret experimental scouting camp inspired the biography. She was intrigued by its role in the birth of the organisation and delving deeper into the world of its famous leader, she was hooked. When, in the pandemic summer of 2020, she witnessed a clash between Scouts and BLM protesters, who were hell-bent on throwing B-P's statue into Poole Harbour, directly opposite the first 1907 Scouts camp site, there was no going back. Like its subject, Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography is thought-provoking, contrary and full of ripping yarns. Lorraine lives in Dorset with her husband and two daughters.
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