Fashion-wise / Maria Vaccarella, Jacquelyn Foltyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaccarella, Maria, author.

Foltyn, Jacquelyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects.

Fashion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fashion-Wise is devoted to an in-depth study of fashion, exploring historical, socio-political, psychological and artistic aspects of this phenomenon. The chapters collected in the volume discuss fashion in the context of politics, business, popular culture, the arts, history and various social media.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Maria Vaccarella and Jacque Lynn Foltyn

Hoop Dreams: The Rise and Fall of the Crinoline in Second-Empire France / Leonard R. Koos

Art Nouveau and the Symbolic Blurring of Women’s Spatial and Corporeal Environments: The Contradiction of Organic Inspiration in Fashion and Interiors / Angie G. Dowell and Denise Bertoncino

The Fashion Revolution of Avant-Garde Japanese Designers: Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto / Flavia Loscialpo

Standing Tall: The Stiletto Heel as Metamorphosis of the Self / Francesca D’Angelo

The Rationalisation of Consumption Reasons for Purchasing Outdoor Recreational Outfits / Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Silje Elisabeth Skuland

The Dog Walk: Canine Chic, Companion Animals and Consumer Culture / Jacque Lynn Foltyn

Fashions for Woman with a Future: Women, World War II and the Language of Uniforms / Alexandra Elias

‘Glamazons’ of Pop: The Enigma of the Female Military-Styled Pop Star: Kate Bush and Madonna / Michael A. Langkjær

It is the Attitude: Fashion Designs for Women with Disabilities / Elizabeth Kaino Hopper

Developing ProAesthetics: Disability as Fashion Discourse / Olga Vainshtein

‘But what do I Wear?’: A Study of Women’s Climbing Attire / Claire Evans

Vintage Clothing Cultures: The Comforts of History / Sarah Lloyd

Audrey Hepburn and the ‘Funny Face’ of Post-World War II Humanism / Jayne Sheridan

The Slut at School: Sex, Dress and Authenticity / Felicity Grace Perry

Humour as a Strategy in Contemporary Fashion / Orna Ben-Meir

Vintage Paperback Meets Vintage Couture: How Tom Ford Brought Christopher Isherwood out from behind the Lens / Kathryn Franklin

Fego DNA Schemas: The Projection of Schematic Constructed Non-Fictional Anxiety within the Styling Design of Fictional Character Dress / Michael Ivy (Michiel Germishuys)

Street-Style: Fashion Photography, Weblogs and the Urban Image / Jess Berry

On the Style Site: Face Hunter as Node and Prism / Charlotte Bik Bandlien

La Biaiseuse / Susie Ralph

Couture: Tool of Belonging / Julie Thomas

‘Fashion in Auschwitz’: Concentration Camp Clothing during World War II: Heretofore Unknown Aspects of Personal Experiences / Sofia Pantouvaki

Schwarz Rot Gold is the New Black / Karolina M. Burbach

Nigerian Clothing Tradition: Preservation and Restoration of Used Alaari Fabrics among the Ondo People of South Western Nigeria / Sunday Roberts Ogunduyile and Evelyn Omotunde Adepeko

African Fashion from Dual Directions: Representing Self and Other / Victoria L. Rovine

The ‘It’ Factor: In Pursuit of the Commoditisation of Fashion / Nathaniel Dafydd Beard

‘Fashionalisation’: Urban Development and the New-Rise Fashion Weeks / Wessie Ling

From Fashion Forecasting to Coolhunting: Previsional Models in Fashion and in Cultural Production / Marco Pedroni

Fashion Apps: Altering the ‘Fashionscape’ through Smartphone Technology / Mario J. Roman

Ecology and Fashion: Development Lines and Prospects / Ines Weller and Sabine Walter

Taste and the Rise of Branded Cult Items: Secondary Lines, Counterfeited and Look-Alike Luxury / Cecilia Winterhalter

Re-Framing Fashion: From Original and Copy to Adaptation / Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

The Lipperheide Costume Library: An Archive of Clothing and Fashion / Susan Ingram.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-160-6

OCLC:

885403039

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881600 DOI