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Luxury - Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess (Hardcover): Patrizia Calefato Luxury - Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess (Hardcover)
Patrizia Calefato; Translated by Lisa Adams
R3,540 Discovery Miles 35 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession. Using approaches from cultural studies, semiotic research and aesthetics, Luxury presents a wide range of case studies including urban space and new technologies, travel, interior design, cars, fashion ads and jewellery to explore what luxury represents, and why, in the contemporary world. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars across a range of fashion studies, cultural studies and sociology, and anyone interested in the power and allure of luxury today.

Fashion as Cultural Translation - Signs, Images, Narratives (Hardcover): Patrizia Calefato Fashion as Cultural Translation - Signs, Images, Narratives (Hardcover)
Patrizia Calefato
R3,413 Discovery Miles 34 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Clothed Body (Hardcover): Patrizia Calefato The Clothed Body (Hardcover)
Patrizia Calefato; Translated by Lisa Adams
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by deeper meanings and philosophies.From tattoos and mini-skirts, to skin decoration, makeup and hair, Calefato unpicks the multiple functions of modern dress. Exploring intriguing commonalities - for example, between tattooed Egyptian mummies of 2000 BC and modern subcultural styles - Calefato considers the psychological, cultural, spiritual and symbolic significances at play in what she aptly labels 'body cartography'. What we wear is a vehicle for the (often contentious) expression of politics, gender and identity, placing clothing at the root of a complex set of messages, many of which are paradoxical. Clothing may, for example, liberate through the pleasures of masquerade and at the same time 'cage' or control the body. The Clothed Body shows how semiotics can provide a convincing template for understanding dress in a wide range of contexts and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of what we wear.

Luxury - Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess (Paperback): Patrizia Calefato Luxury - Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess (Paperback)
Patrizia Calefato; Translated by Lisa Adams
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession. Using approaches from cultural studies, semiotic research and aesthetics, Luxury presents a wide range of case studies including urban space and new technologies, travel, interior design, cars, fashion ads and jewellery to explore what luxury represents, and why, in the contemporary world. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars across a range of fashion studies, cultural studies and sociology, and anyone interested in the power and allure of luxury today.

Fashion, Time, Language (Paperback): Patrizia Calefato Fashion, Time, Language (Paperback)
Patrizia Calefato
R1,061 Discovery Miles 10 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Clothed Body (Paperback): Patrizia Calefato The Clothed Body (Paperback)
Patrizia Calefato; Translated by Lisa Adams
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by deeper meanings and philosophies.From tattoos and mini-skirts, to skin decoration, makeup and hair, Calefato unpicks the multiple functions of modern dress. Exploring intriguing commonalities - for example, between tattooed Egyptian mummies of 2000 BC and modern subcultural styles - Calefato considers the psychological, cultural, spiritual and symbolic significances at play in what she aptly labels 'body cartography'. What we wear is a vehicle for the (often contentious) expression of politics, gender and identity, placing clothing at the root of a complex set of messages, many of which are paradoxical. Clothing may, for example, liberate through the pleasures of masquerade and at the same time 'cage' or control the body. The Clothed Body shows how semiotics can provide a convincing template for understanding dress in a wide range of contexts and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of what we wear.

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