Fashioning models : image, text and industry / edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Entwistle, Joanne.

Wissinger, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Models (Persons).

Fashion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

English ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Berg, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a cutting-edge examination of modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Accessible and highly engaging, Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and related disciplines.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Models as Brands: Critical Thinking about Bodies and Images; PART I; 3 From Artist's Model to the 'Natural Girl': Containing Sexuality in Early-Twentieth-Century Modelling; 4 'Giving Coloured Sisters a Superficial Equality': Re-Modelling African American Womanhood in Early Postwar America; 5 Fashion Modelling in Australia; 6 Performing Dreams: A Counter-History of Models as Glamour's Embodiment; PART II; 7 The Figure of the Model and Reality TV

8 Made in Japan: Fashion Modelling in Tokyo9 Modelling Consumption: Fashion Modelling Work in Contemporary Society; 10 Fashion Modelling: The Industry Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780857853110

0857853112

9780857853103

0857853104

OCLC:

854520557