Fashion and celebrity culture

The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the degree to which celebrity culture has reshaped the fashion system. Fashion and Celebrity Culture crit...

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Autor principal: Gibson, Pamela Church (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Berg 2012
Edición:English ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, rationale, context
  • Celebrity and fashion, past and present
  • Part I. Fashion and film. Film stars as fashion icons
  • Changes in cinematic culture: some celebrity cover girls
  • 'Fashion films': from Prêt-à-porter to A single man
  • Sex and the city: from small screen to big screen
  • Part II. Fashion media and culture. The changing face(s) of the fashion magazine and the new media landscape
  • Contemporary television: so many celebrities, so little fashion?
  • Music and fashion forge links
  • Artists, celebrity and fashion: from Wilde and Warhol to Taylor-Wood
  • Part III. Fashion gone global. Designers and models become brands
  • Other continents, other celebrities, other fashions
  • Concluding thoughts: folklore, fallibility, the future.