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Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr Award Street style blogging has
experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade.
Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion,
have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the
representations that appear in magazines and on runways, and
putting new cities on the fashion world map. This cutting-edge book
documents the evolution of street style photography, from the
fieldwork photos of early anthropology to the glamorized snapshots
that appear on blogs today, and explores the structural shifts in
the global fashion industry that street style has helped bring
about. Chronicling author and anthropologist Brent Luvaas'
experience over three years of blogging through vivid street
imagery and rich ethnographic detail, this book turns the lens of
street style photography back onto anthropology itself, arguing
that the phenomenon is a powerful mode of amateur ethnography.
Bloggers blur the distinction between professional and amateur,
insider and outsider, self and brand. This book documents that blur
from the ground level-from the streets of Philadelphia to the
sidewalks of New York Fashion Week. Street Style is an essential
read for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, sociology,
media and cultural studies, and fans of street style photography
alike.
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent
spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken
cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own
clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a
vast, collaborative network of impassioned amateurs more interested
in making than consuming.
"DIY Style" tells the story of this international do-it-yourself
(DIY) movement through a major case study of one of its biggest,
but least known contingents: the "indie" music and fashion scene of
the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian island nation of
Indonesia. Through rich ethnographic detail, in-depth historical
analysis, and cutting-edge social theory, the book chronicles the
rise of DIY culture in Indonesia, and also explores the phenomenon
in Europe and the United States, painting an evocative portrait of
vibrant communities who are not only making and distributing
popular culture on their own terms, but working to tear down the
barriers between production and consumption, third and first world,
global and local. What emerges from the book is a cautiously
optimistic view of the future of global capitalism - a creative,
collectivist alternative built from the ground up.
This exciting and original study is essential reading for students
and scholars of anthropology, fashion, media studies, cultural
studies and sociology.
Anthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify
and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline.
The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader is the first
authoritative anthology of the seminal writings of anthropologists
studying clothing and fashion. From classic ethnographies of dress
to cutting-edge contemporary research tracing the global
circulation of clothing today, this comprehensive volume maps out
this vibrant field of study's shifting preoccupations, theoretical
innovations, and traditional and experimental methodologies.
Comprised of over 40 curated extracts from the work of leading
international scholars from Jonathan Friedman to Katherine Frank,
the reader is divided into themed sections, each with an
introduction and guide to further reading. With each extract
introduced and contextualised, the reader will be an essential
resource for students and scholars of fashion studies, social and
cultural anthropology, material culture, sociology and related
fields.
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent
spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken
cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own
clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a
vast, collaborative network of impassioned amateurs more interested
in making than consuming.
"DIY Style" tells the story of this international do-it-yourself
(DIY) movement through a major case study of one of its biggest,
but least known contingents: the "indie" music and fashion scene of
the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian island nation of
Indonesia. Through rich ethnographic detail, in-depth historical
analysis, and cutting-edge social theory, the book chronicles the
rise of DIY culture in Indonesia, and also explores the phenomenon
in Europe and the United States, painting an evocative portrait of
vibrant communities who are not only making and distributing
popular culture on their own terms, but working to tear down the
barriers between production and consumption, third and first world,
global and local. What emerges from the book is a cautiously
optimistic view of the future of global capitalism - a creative,
collectivist alternative built from the ground up.
This exciting and original study is essential reading for students
and scholars of anthropology, fashion, media studies, cultural
studies and sociology.
Anthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify
and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline.
The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader is the first
authoritative anthology of the seminal writings of anthropologists
studying clothing and fashion. From classic ethnographies of dress
to cutting-edge contemporary research tracing the global
circulation of clothing today, this comprehensive volume maps out
this vibrant field of study's shifting preoccupations, theoretical
innovations, and traditional and experimental methodologies.
Comprised of over 40 curated extracts from the work of leading
international scholars from Jonathan Friedman to Katherine Frank,
the reader is divided into themed sections, each with an
introduction and guide to further reading. With each extract
introduced and contextualised, the reader will be an essential
resource for students and scholars of fashion studies, social and
cultural anthropology, material culture, sociology and related
fields.
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