Review of “Flamboyance” by Jack Parlett – a serious study of the spectacular (opens in new tab)

John-Baptiste Oduor in The Guardian: A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were waging war on the miners and she spent late nights at Marxist-feminist reading groups – she wore an almost daily uniform of jeans and a white T-shirt. On her wedding…