1960s Model Girl

<p><b>Examining histories of post-war Britain, fashion, modelling, photography and popular culture, <i>1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History </i>explores model girl narratives found throughout media, fashion magazines, advice literature, auto/biographies and fashion exhibits.</b><br><br>Introducing theories of history, life-writing and narrative identity,<i> 1960s Model Girl</i> demonstrates how these can be applied to the study of fashion and shows how fashion studies opens new pathways to understanding identity and emergent British femininities. Drawing on a wealth of archival research, case studies include teen fashion magazines <i>Petticoat</i> and <i>Model Girl</i>; advice writing of model agent Lucie Clayton and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes; autobiographies of fashion models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy; and the <i>Mary Quant</i> exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2019-2020).<br><br>This book provides an intricate study of a varied and manifold figure whose impact and influence spreads further afield than a particular time, place and professional context. Closely attending to a range of model girl narratives, <i>1960s Model Girl</i> illuminates the cultural past and, in turn, sheds light on our own historical present.</p>