Fashioning the tube: posters and the new consumers
Fashioning the tube: posters and the new consumers
Fashion historian, Emmanuelle Dirix, discusses how Underground posters were designed to appeal to women in the 1920s and 1930s. It became apparent that ‘posters accompanied the housewife all the way from her front door to the shop window’, resulting in a new style of poster emerging to cater for this new consumer audience.
Dirix, Emmanuelle
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25 November 2008
Dirix, Emmanuelle
81b6957e-e128-418d-bd59-77e13ae94de7
Dirix, Emmanuelle
(2008)
Fashioning the tube: posters and the new consumers.
The Art of Poster - a Century of Design, London, United Kingdom.
25 Nov 2008.
1 pp
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Fashion historian, Emmanuelle Dirix, discusses how Underground posters were designed to appeal to women in the 1920s and 1930s. It became apparent that ‘posters accompanied the housewife all the way from her front door to the shop window’, resulting in a new style of poster emerging to cater for this new consumer audience.
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Published date: 25 November 2008
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The Art of Poster - a Century of Design, London, United Kingdom, 2008-11-25 - 2008-11-25
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/149009
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Emmanuelle Dirix
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