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London is a centre of cutting edge fashion here, the creators of the best fashion mag out there , Fantastic Man, tell the story of London style through the history of the button down shirt part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground.Encompassing music, street style, fashion, portraits, day and night locations, the visual context of east London where clothes factories and workshops used to be, night shots where bars and clubs used to be or still are , an examination of collar shapes and archive images from fashion and music Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom are the creators of Fantastic Man, a singular modern men s style journal Here they chart the history of the button up shirt and explore why it s so central to contemporary London s fashion, design and people With star contributors, fashion shoots and singular writing, this is a fashion magazine in a book. Best Download [ Buttoned-Up ] author [ Jop van Bennekom ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Bit dull.but then again, given it s a short piece on men s fashion in East London, not sure why I would expect to find it all that interesting Some nice photos and I liked the very short chat with Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys fame.Fantastic Man is not, as I first thought, a pretentious pseudonym, but a men s fashion magazine that originated in The Netherlands.Although this book is part of a series celebrating the 125th anniversary of the London Underground, this book has absolutely nothing to do with trains or public transport, instead focussing onThe peculiarity of buttoning up one s shirt, especially in east Londonit sounds like a strange topic, and it is one, and it seems incredible that a 112 page book was publi Fantastic Man is not, a...This is another of the dozen books in the Penguin Underground Series, written in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground in 2013 Unlike the other 11 books in the series, which are based on current Underground lines, the East London line is no longer in service, as it closed in 2007 and was replaced by London Overground services in 2010.In keeping with the closure of the East London line, the writers of Fantastic Man, a London men s fashion magazine, eschew any mention of This is another of the dozen books in the Penguin Underground Series, written in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground in 2013 Unlike the other 11 books in the series, which are based on current Underground lines, the East London line is no longer in service, as it closed in 2007 and was replaced by London Overground services in 2010.In keeping with the closure of the East London line, the writers of Fantastic Man, a London men s fashion magazine, eschew any mention of the past or current train services, and instead focus on the fashion sense of ordinary men and male celebrities who work and live there The title of the book refers to the current trend of tasteful young men to wear dress shirts completely buttoned and without ties The book contains numerous pictures of these fashion plates, along with occasional photos of East London street corners This book was a complete waste of my time, and it may possi...This book is written by two people from the magazine Fantastic Man, and is about the phenomenon of buttoning down a shirt, i.e using all the buttons on a shirt, especially the top one, and how this affects people.There are some fairly interesting interviews here, e.g with Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, but otherwise it could delve far into the uninteresting to me Still, it s nice to see that someone can actually take their time to do something like this, about such a narrow subject.Some This book is written by two people from the magazine Fantastic Man, and is about the phenomenon of buttoning down a shirt, i.e using all the buttons on a shirt, especially the top one, and ...Mixing the inherently yet unintentionally comical in fashion writing here, about men buttoning the top shirt button as a quasi philosophical statement about dignity and sexual availability with the inherently visceral in pop music writing, peppered with 20 and ...It s not a terrible read, just too much of a light one Almost felt as if I was reading a fashion students dissertation.its a bit repetitive, and very magazine style, but that s not necc a bad thing.Lightweight, but interesting The essay on mod culture is the best part.

Buttoned-Up
  • English
  • 12 September 2017
  • Paperback
  • 128 pages
  • 1846145686
  • Jop van Bennekom
  • Buttoned-Up