Fat fashion the thin ideal and the segregation of plus-size bodies

The first systematic study of fatness and thinness in the fashion industry, this book explores the reasons why fashion producers forgo the plus-size market in favour of the ideal of thinness -- Editor

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Volonté, Paolo, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022
Materias:
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004740639708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The paradox of nonexistent fat fashion
  • Dress and the body
  • Fashion discourse : the tyranny of slenderness
  • Fashion practice : the persistence of the thin ideal
  • Fashion technology : the sizing system
  • Fashion politics : the segregation of non-thin bodies
  • Outlook