Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework

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but also within the international fashion sector. Although the editors provide an excellent bibliographic review of Spanish fashion history in their introduction, the book omits bibliographic sources in international and Spanish historiography that would have helped to better contextualise the topic for an Anglo-Saxon audience. For example, references to the London punk underground movement, the fashion photography trends led by Martin Muncaksi and continued by Richard Avedon, or Balenciaga’s role in the international fashion scene during the 1940s, would have supported a better understanding of some of the topics discussed. After all, La Movida, Spanish fashion photography and Balenciaga’s work for Spanish films in the 1940s, were part of wider, international tendencies. The great merit of this edited volume is its inclusion of a diverse range of approaches that enrich the subject. It pioneers the study of current Spanish fashion and lays the foundations to move forward. Therefore, Fashioning Spain. From Mantillas to Rosal ıa is recommended reading for all scholars of Spanish fashion.