中文简介：

前卫时尚有其黑暗的一面，即对死亡、创伤、异化和衰败的表现。本书着眼于20世纪90年代的时尚设计，探索了诸多令人不安的主题，并针对消费文化和当代焦虑展开讨论。卡洛琳·埃文斯（Caroline Evans）分析了先锋设计师和时尚摄影师的作品，以及20世纪最后10年兴盛的景观化时装秀，尝试重新认识时尚的阴暗面并理解其内在蕴意。

本书以独特的深度思考了一系列当代时尚，包括约翰·加里亚诺、亚历山大·麦昆、侯赛因·卡拉扬、维克托·罗尔夫等设计师的作品，以及史蒂文·梅塞，尼克·奈特，尤尔根·泰勒等摄影师的作品。

从马克思到沃尔特·本雅明的不同视角出发，埃文斯认为，时尚位于当代的中心位置并承载着西方文化最深切的关注。

英文简介：

Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation and decay. This seminal publication offers an unexpected discussion of cutting-edge fashion in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about consumer culture and contemporary anxieties. Caroline Evans analyses the work of innovative designers, the images of fashion photographers and the spectacular fashion shows that developed in the final decade of the twentieth century to arrive at a new understanding of fashion's dark side and what it signifies.

Fashion at the Edge considers a range of ground- breaking fashion in unprecedented depth and detail, including the work of such designers as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Viktor & Rolf, and photographers such as Steven Meisel, Nick Knight and Juergen Teller.

Drawing on diverse perspectives from Marx to Walter Benjamin, Evans shows that fashion stands at the very centre of the contemporary, and that it voices some of Western culture's deepest concerns.