Off the Wall

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Fashion from East Germany, 1964 to 1980 East Germany may be most remembered for the activities of the Stasi, but now, for the first time, its secret short flirtation with fashion is revealed. For a short period the notoriously repressive bureaucrats who ran East Germany decided to bring some color into their otherwise drab lives. They commissioned two photographers, hired St. Pauli Girls as models, and chose the locations that represented their greatest socialist achievements--oil refineries, worker canteens, concrete office buildings, airports--to shoot their daring photographs. The result: cunning and original uses for tartan, little hats and jaunty caps, bold florals, and more swatches of pumpkin, tomato, and lemon yellow than you might find at a country fair. For years, these alarming examples of a zeitgeist unleashed have been hidden from Western eyes...but not anymore! From blindingly-bright mod go-go girls to demure peasant lasses posed with that most German of animals, the Llama, these images reveal another side of what went on behind the Berlin Wall.

ISBN10: 159691047X	ISBN13: 9781596910478
Format: Hardcover	Pages: 96
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA	GoodReads Rating: 3
Author: Günter Rubitzsch,

Off the Wall

Read the most by: boys and girls

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