Changing fashion : a critical introduction to trend analysis and meaning / Annette Lynch and Mitchell D. Strauss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Annette (Annette Ferne), author.

Contributor:

Strauss, Mitchell D.

Series:

Dress, body, culture.

Dress, body, culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--United States--History.

Fashion.

Fashion design--United States--History.

Fashion design.

Popular culture--United States--History.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

English edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Berg, 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, amongst others. Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a wide range of contemporary and historical case material which provides practical examples of trend analysis and change, from the art deco textile designs of Sonia Delaunay to the chameleonic shifts in B

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Fashion Change in the New Millennium: An Introduction; 2 Fashion and the Self; 3 Fashion Change as Search for Meaning; 4 Fashion as Collective Behavior; 5 Style: The Endless Desire for a New Look; 6 Fashion as Performance; 7 Fashion as Cycle; 8 Millennium Dress History: Artifacts as Harbingers of Change; 9 Fashion Change - Binding the Threads Together; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-84788-376-1

1-283-07976-3

9786613079763

1-84788-750-3

0-85785-149-7

OCLC:

719383766