Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano: Difference between revisions

Help

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Browse history interactively

← Previous edit Next edit →

Content deleted Content added

VisualWikitext

Inline

Revision as of 21:05, 8 December 2015

This article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion for the following reasons:

because in its current form it serves only to promote or publicise an entity, person, product, or idea, and would require a fundamental rewrite in order to become encyclopedic. However, the mere fact that a company, organization, or product is a page's subject does not, on its own, qualify that page for deletion under this criterion. This criterion also does not apply where substantial encyclopedic content would remain after removing the promotional material as deletion is not cleanup; in this case please remove the promotional material yourself, or add the {{advert}} tag to alert others to do so. See CSD G11.
as a copyright infringement^{(Copyvios report)} of https://www.bookdepository.com/Gods-Kings-Dana-Thomas/9781846146138 (Copyvios report). This criterion applies only in unequivocal cases, where there is no free-content material on the page worth saving and no later edits requiring attribution – for more complicated situations, see Wikipedia:Copyright violations. See CSD G12.

The page may be deleted under any criterion that is valid.

If this article does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, or you intend to fix it, please remove this notice, but do not remove this notice from pages that you have created yourself. If you created this page and you disagree with the given reason for deletion, you can click the button below and leave a message explaining why you believe it should not be deleted. You can also visit the talk page to check if you have received a response to your message.

Note that this article may be deleted at any time if it unquestionably meets the speedy deletion criteria, or if an explanation posted to the talk page is found to be insufficient.

Nominator: Please consider placing the template:

{{subst:Db-notice-multiple|Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano|header=1|G11|G12}} ~~~~

on the talk page of the author.

Note to administrators: this article has content on its talk page which should be checked before deletion.

Administrators: check links, talk, history (last), and logs before deletion. Consider checking Google.
This page was last edited by Danafifethomas (contribs | logs) at 21:05, 8 December 2015 (UTC) (8 years ago)

The CorenSearchBot has performed a web search with the contents of this page, and it appears to include material copied directly from:

https://www.bookdepository.com/Gods-Kings-Dana-Thomas/9781846146138 (Copyvios report)

It will soon be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues. The content should not be mirrored or otherwise reused until the issue has been resolved.

If substantial content is duplicated, unless evidence is provided to the contrary (e.g. evidence of permission to use this content under terms consistent with the Wikimedia Terms of Use or public domain status; see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials), editors will assume that this text is a copyright violation, and will soon delete the copy. Before removing this notice, you should:

Check if CorenSearchBot is in error: If so, simply note so on this article's discussion page.
Replace the copyrighted text with your own work. Note that simply modified or rephrased text is still an infringement—to remove the copyrighted contents you will need to completely remove them and then write totally new text to replace it.
If you hold the copyright to this text and permit its use under the terms consistent with Wikipedia's policies, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions on how to verify the licensing.
Replace the copyrighted content with a wikified reference.
Check whether it is reasonable to revert to one of the previous versions of the article
Remove the copyrighted content if it is not critical to the article.

Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
Author	Dana Thomas
Language	English
Subject	Luxury goods, Fashion
Genre	Non-fiction
Published	2015 (Penguin Press)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print, e-book
Pages	432 pages
ISBN	1-594-204942

Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano is a 2015 book by Paris-based American journalist Dana Thomas.^[1]

Overview

Gods And Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano is a double biography on the lives two British fashion designers.

Reviews

The Mail on Sunday called it "A riveting double biography...Thomas had a ringside seat while all this divine madness unfurled."

Huffington Post deemed Gods and Kings: "One of the non-fiction titles of the year...like a modern Faustian tale of tragic dimension." ^[2]

Amazon named Gods and Kings a Best Book of the Month, calling it: "High drama, high fashion, high stakes, and high tragedy." ^[3]

References

^ "Penguin Books Group". Retrieved December 28, 2010.
^ "Dana Thomas's Compelling Dual Biography of Fashion Icons".
^ "Gods and Kings by Dana Thomas".

@@ Line 22: / Line 22: @@
+	Gods And Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano is a double biography on the lives two British fashion designers.
-	In February 2011, [[John Galliano]], the lauded head of [[Christian Dior]], imploded with a drunken, anti-Semitic tirade that lead to his firing. Exactly a year earlier, celebrated British designer [[Alexander McQueen]] took his own life three weeks before his women's wear show. Both were casualties of the war between art and commerce that has raged within fashion for the last two decades. In the mid-1990s, Galliano and McQueen arrived on the fashion scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring, sexy designs and theatrical fashion shows. They had similar backgrounds: sensitive, shy gay men raised in tough London neighborhoods, their love of fashion nurtured by their doting mothers. To combat the bullying they endured throughout their youth, both became insecure  bigmouths with mean streaks. By 1997, each had landed a job as creative director for couture houses owned by French tycoon [[Bernard Arnault]], the chairman of [[LVMH]].
-	During their two-decade reign, Galliano and McQueen’s work not only influenced fashion; their distinct styles were reflected across the media landscape. At the same time, and with their help, luxury fashion evolved from a clutch of small, family-owned businesses into a $280 billion-a-year global corporate industry. Executives pushed the designers to meet increasingly rapid deadlines and to top each collection. For both Galliano and McQueen, the pace was unsustainable.
-	To compound matters, in 2007 both designers lost their closest associates, and then succumbed to depression and substance abuse. When McQueen’s mother died in early February 2010, he could no longer cope; days later, he hanged himself. The same week that Galliano imploded, [[Forbes]] named Arnault the fourth richest man in the world. Two months later, [[Catherine Middleton]] wore a McQueen wedding gown, instantly making it the world’s most famous fashion brand, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a wildly successful McQueen retrospective, co-sponsored by the corporate owners of the McQueen brand. It was clear to see who had won and who had lost.
-In her groundbreaking work, Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In doing so, she reveals the relentless world of couture and the price it demanded of the very ones who saved it.
 ==Reviews==

Revision as of 21:05, 8 December 2015

Overview

Reviews

References

Further reading