Fashion theory a reader

"This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion. From apparently simple and accessible theories concerning wha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Barnard, Malcolm, 1958- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Edición:Second edition
Colección:Routledge student readers
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of table
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories
  • Introduction
  • 1 Explaining it Away
  • 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction
  • 3 Adorned in Zeitgeist
  • 4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture
  • PART TWO What fashion is and is not
  • Introduction
  • 5 Fashion
  • 6 Art
  • 7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation
  • 8 Fashion
  • 9 Extract from Fashion and Anti Fashion
  • PART THREE Fashion and (the) image
  • Introduction
  • 10 Fashion Photography
  • 11 Going Beyond 'The Fashion System': A Critique
  • 12 'Doing Fashion Photographs'
  • 13 Introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith
  • PART FOUR Sustainable fashion
  • Introduction
  • 14 Consumers' Perceptions of 'Green': Why and How Consumers Use Eco-Fashion and Green Beauty Products
  • 15 Fashion, Needs and Consumption
  • 16 Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes we Wear
  • PART FIVE Fashion as communication
  • Introduction
  • 17 Social Life as a Sign System
  • 18 The Analysis of the Rhetorical System
  • 19 Do Clothes Speak? What Makes them Fashion?
  • 20 When the Meaning is not a Message: A Critique of the Consumption as Communication Thesis
  • 21 "Fashion as Communication Revisited"
  • PART SIX Fashion: identity and difference
  • Introduction
  • 22 Express Yourself: The Politics of Dressing Up
  • 23 Objectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel
  • 24 'Power Dressing' and the Construction of the Career Woman
  • 25 From Gay to Queer
  • Or, Wasn't Fashion Always Already a Very Queer Thing?
  • 26 Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes
  • 27 Popular Fashion and Working-Class Affluence
  • 28 Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection
  • 29 Great Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Success
  • 30 Taste and Distinction: The Politics of Style
  • 31 Islamic Fashions Cape
  • 32 You Should Understand, It's a Freedom Thing: The Stoned Cherrie-Steve Biko T-Shirt
  • PART SEVEN Fashion, clothes and the body
  • Introduction
  • 33 Addressing the Body
  • 34 Deviant Bodies and Suitable Clothes
  • 35 "My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel": Fashioning the Prosthetised Body
  • 36 Fashion, Clothes and the Body
  • PART EIGHT Fashion: production, consumption, prosumption
  • Introduction
  • 37 The Crossroad Between Production and Consumption
  • 38 Consuming or Living with Things? Wearing it out
  • 39 Reconceptualising Prosumption Beyond the 'Cultural Turn': Passive Fashion Prosumption in Korea and China
  • 40 Attentiveness, Materials, and their use: The Stories of Never Washed, Perfect Piece and My Community
  • 41 The Little Black Dress is the Solution, but what is the Problem?
  • PART NINE Modern fashion
  • Introduction
  • 42 Adorned in Dreams: Introduction
  • 43 Modernism and Fashion: A Social Psychological Interpretation
  • 44 Public Roles/Personality in Public
  • 45 Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street.