|
Showing 1 - 10 of
10 matches in All Departments
The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original
overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological
perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now
entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about
'cultural' and 'creative' work as a major driver of developed
economies.  This third edition of The Fashioned Body,
the most comprehensive revision to date, revisits the classic works
on fashion, dress and the body, and introduces contemporary issues
and debates in the area. With new sections and revisions to all
chapters, the major updates pick up on recent debates on fashion
from the perspective of decolonising the curriculum, diversity,
queer studies, sustainability, the environment, and digital
fashion. A newly expanded bibliography of contemporary studies of
fashion and dress is also included. The book continues to show how
an understanding of fashion and dress requires analysing the
meanings and practices of the dressed body in culture. Moreover,
its central premise – that fashion is a 'situated practice'
articulated through everyday dressed bodies – has become
established orthodoxy within fashion studies since publication of
the first edition in 2000. Â Remaining a seminal text in the
field, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in
the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture.
The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum
of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts
that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies.
The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and
Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashion and Materiality; Fashion,
Agency and Policy; Science, Technology and New fashion; Fashion and
Time and, Sustainable Fashion in a Globalised world. Each section
consists of approximately four essays authored by established
researchers in the field from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden,
Canada and Australia. The essays are written by international
subject specialists who each engage with their section's theme in
the light of their own discipline and provide clear case-studies to
further knowledge on fashion. This consistency provides clarity and
permits comparative analysis. The handbook will be essential
reading for students of fashion as well as professionals in the
industry.
The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable.
How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer
culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on
fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender,
as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the
global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of
fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and
the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice
of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models
have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While
modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal
specifically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where
nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face. It
also considers how models glamorize consumption through everyday
activities, and neoliberal labour forms via reality TV. With
commentaries from industry professionals who experienced the
cultural juggernaut of the supermodels, the final essay situates
their impact within the rise of brand culture and the globalization
of fashion markets since 1990. Accessible and highly engaging,
Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of
fashion and related disciplines.
Fashion is bound up with promoting the "new," concerned with
constantly changing aesthetics. The favored styles or looks of a
season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors
who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new
ideals, before moving on next season. If fashion is defined, in
part, by the incessant requirement to be "new," this requirement
means aesthetic qualities are always in motion and, therefore,
unstable. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long
enough for them to be calculated--i.e., selected, distributed and
sold--by those critically placed inside the fashion system? Since
there are few studies that actually examine the work that goes on
inside the world of fashion we know little about these processes.
"Fashion and the Cultural Economy" addresses this gap in our
knowledge by examining how aesthetic products are defined,
distributed and valued. It focuses attention on the work of some of
the market agents, in particular model agents or "bookers" and
fashion buyers, shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. In
analyzing their work, Entwistle develops a theoretical framework
for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic
marketplaces and the aesthetic calculations within them.
For some time now the body has been a central topic across a range
of social science disciplines. Similarly, there has been a growing
interest in the cultural meaning of clothing. But curiously, even
though people are nearly always clothed, the relationship between
dress and the body has been relatively unexplored until now.
Dress is a crucial aspect of embodiment, shaping the self
physically and psychologically. From dressing up to dressing down,
this book exposes the complex ways that fashions and costumes
render the body presentable in a vast range of social situations.
It investigates the varied ways in which western and non-western
clothes operate to give the body meaning and situate it within
culture. The authors consider different approaches to the
relationship between fashion, dress and the body, and present new
theoretical models for their future study. They demonstrate the
importance of the concept of ‘embodiment’ to dress and fashion
studies.
Exploring gender, photography, cultural history and modernity, this
book deals with a vast range of questions inherent in dressing up
the body. From fashion photography in the 1960s to contemporary
queer fashion and the history of the masquerade, this is a
fascinating and far-reaching collection. Its breadth and depth make
it essential reading for anyone interested in style, costume, the
body, gender or history.
For some time now the body has been a central topic across a range
of social science disciplines. Similarly, there has been a growing
interest in the cultural meaning of clothing. But curiously, even
though people are nearly always clothed, the relationship between
dress and the body has been relatively unexplored until now.
Dress is a crucial aspect of embodiment, shaping the self
physically and psychologically. From dressing up to dressing down,
this book exposes the complex ways that fashions and costumes
render the body presentable in a vast range of social situations.
It investigates the varied ways in which western and non-western
clothes operate to give the body meaning and situate it within
culture. The authors consider different approaches to the
relationship between fashion, dress and the body, and present new
theoretical models for their future study. They demonstrate the
importance of the concept of 'embodiment' to dress and fashion
studies.
Exploring gender, photography, cultural history and modernity, this
book deals with a vast range of questions inherent in dressing up
the body. From fashion photography in the 1960s to contemporary
queer fashion and the history of the masquerade, this is a
fascinating and far-reaching collection. Its breadth and depth make
it essential reading for anyone interested in style, costume, the
body, gender or history.
The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original
overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological
perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now
entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about
'cultural' and 'creative' work as a major driver of developed
economies.  This third edition of The Fashioned Body,
the most comprehensive revision to date, revisits the classic works
on fashion, dress and the body, and introduces contemporary issues
and debates in the area. With new sections and revisions to all
chapters, the major updates pick up on recent debates on fashion
from the perspective of decolonising the curriculum, diversity,
queer studies, sustainability, the environment, and digital
fashion. A newly expanded bibliography of contemporary studies of
fashion and dress is also included. The book continues to show how
an understanding of fashion and dress requires analysing the
meanings and practices of the dressed body in culture. Moreover,
its central premise – that fashion is a 'situated practice'
articulated through everyday dressed bodies – has become
established orthodoxy within fashion studies since publication of
the first edition in 2000. Â Remaining a seminal text in the
field, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in
the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture.
The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum
of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts
that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies.
The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and
Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashion and Materiality; Fashion,
Agency and Policy; Science, Technology and New fashion; Fashion and
Time and, Sustainable Fashion in a Globalised world. Each section
consists of approximately four essays authored by established
researchers in the field from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden,
Canada and Australia. The essays are written by international
subject specialists who each engage with their section's theme in
the light of their own discipline and provide clear case-studies to
further knowledge on fashion. This consistency provides clarity and
permits comparative analysis. The handbook will be essential
reading for students of fashion as well as professionals in the
industry.
The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable.
How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer
culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on
fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender,
as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the
global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of
fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and
the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice
of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models
have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While
modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal
specifically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where
nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face. It
also considers how models glamorize consumption through everyday
activities, and neoliberal labour forms via reality TV. With
commentaries from industry professionals who experienced the
cultural juggernaut of the supermodels, the final essay situates
their impact within the rise of brand culture and the globalization
of fashion markets since 1990. Accessible and highly engaging,
Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of
fashion and related disciplines.
Fashion is bound up with promoting the "new," concerned with
constantly changing aesthetics. The favored styles or looks of a
season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors
who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new
ideals, before moving on next season. If fashion is defined, in
part, by the incessant requirement to be "new," this requirement
means aesthetic qualities are always in motion and, therefore,
unstable. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long
enough for them to be calculated--i.e., selected, distributed and
sold--by those critically placed inside the fashion system? Since
there are few studies that actually examine the work that goes on
inside the world of fashion we know little about these processes.
"Fashion and the Cultural Economy" addresses this gap in our
knowledge by examining how aesthetic products are defined,
distributed and valued. It focuses attention on the work of some of
the market agents, in particular model agents or "bookers" and
fashion buyers, shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. In
analyzing their work, Entwistle develops a theoretical framework
for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic
marketplaces and the aesthetic calculations within them.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|