The Rebel’s Wardrobe - Book
The Rebel’s Wardrobe, an entertaining exploration of trend-immune fashion classics and the surprising origins of your everyday clothing items. How did the five pocket Jeans or the plain white T-shirt become everyday heroes? Which movie star helped turn the leather jacket into a global icon?
The Rebel’s Wardrobe, has the definitive answer to these questions and countless others. The book explores the often-surprising origins of the garments that have become so ingrained in our cultures and lifestyles that we find it difficult to imagine a world without them.
Written by Bryan Szabo, edited by Thomas Stege Bojer, and published by gestalten, The Rebel’s Wardrobe looks beyond denim to the broader world of casual men’s clothing. Brimming with beautiful full-colour illustrations and historical photographs, it is the definitive visual and textual history of rugged and rebellious menswear.
Workaday staples like the five-pocket jean, the tee shirt, the chino, and the sneaker appear alongside the detailed histories of more niche pieces like the engineer boot, the competition sweater, and the bomber jacket. Each garment (more than 40 in all) is given its own chapter that situates the piece within the cultural and commercial context that first produced it and then made it indispensable.
These are the stories of iconic rebels of the stage and screen and the clothes they wore, but also of the unsung working-class heroes who provided the blueprint for rebellious style. Together, these dashing and daring figures moved utilitarian menswear from the domain of the practical into the world of the fashionable.
The rebel’s wardrobe is filled, not just with clothes, but with incredible stories of grit, courage, and sacrifice. We practitioners of rebel style need to hear these stories to better understand the clothes we wear and why we wear them.
The Rebel’s Wardrobe
Book, 288 pages
€ 50,00