Fashion theory : a reader / edited by Malcolm Barnard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnard, Malcolm, 1958- ed. lit.

Series:

Routledge student readers.

Routledge Student Readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moda--Aspectos sociales.

Fashion design.

Local Subjects:

Moda--Aspectos sociales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (847 pages).

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]

Summary:

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of table

Preface to the second edition

Introduction

PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories

1 Explaining it Away

2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction

3 Adorned in Zeitgeist

4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture

PART TWO What fashion is and is not

5 Fashion

6 Art

7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation

8 Fashion

9 Extract from Fashion and Anti Fashion

PART THREE Fashion and (the) image

10 Fashion Photography

11 Going Beyond 'The Fashion System': A Critique

12 'Doing Fashion Photographs'

13 Introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith

PART FOUR Sustainable fashion

14 Consumers' Perceptions of 'Green': Why and How Consumers Use Eco-Fashion and Green Beauty Products

15 Fashion, Needs and Consumption

16 Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes we Wear

PART FIVE Fashion as communication

17 Social Life as a Sign System

18 The Analysis of the Rhetorical System

19 Do Clothes Speak? What Makes them Fashion?

20 When the Meaning is not a Message: A Critique of the Consumption as Communication Thesis

21 "Fashion as Communication Revisited"

PART SIX Fashion: identity and difference

22 Express Yourself: The Politics of Dressing Up

23 Objectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel

24 'Power Dressing' and the Construction of the Career Woman

25 From Gay to Queer - Or, Wasn't Fashion Always Already a Very Queer Thing?

26 Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes

27 Popular Fashion and Working-Class Affluence

28 Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection

29 Great Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Success.

30 Taste and Distinction: The Politics of Style

31 Islamic Fashions Cape

32 You Should Understand, It's a Freedom Thing: The Stoned Cherrie-Steve Biko T-Shirt

PART SEVEN Fashion, clothes and the body

33 Addressing the Body

34 Deviant Bodies and Suitable Clothes

35 "My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel": Fashioning the Prosthetised Body

36 Fashion, Clothes and the Body

PART EIGHT Fashion: production, consumption, prosumption

37 The Crossroad Between Production and Consumption

38 Consuming or Living with Things? Wearing it out

39 Reconceptualising Prosumption Beyond the 'Cultural Turn': Passive Fashion Prosumption in Korea and China

40 Attentiveness, Materials, and their use: The Stories of Never Washed, Perfect Piece and My Community

41 The Little Black Dress is the Solution, but what is the Problem?

PART NINE Modern fashion

42 Adorned in Dreams: Introduction

43 Modernism and Fashion: A Social Psychological Interpretation

44 Public Roles/Personality in Public

45 Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street

PART TEN Postmodern fashion

46 The Ideological Genesis of Needs/Fetishism and Ideology

47 Fashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code

48 A Tale of Inscription/Fashion Statements

49 Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-Assembled Clothes

PART ELEVEN Digital/new media and fashion

50 Narcissism, Femininity and Alienation

51 Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-Portraits

52 Bringing Sexy Back: Reclaiming the Body Aesthetic Via Self-Shooting

53 Mediatization and Digital Media in the Field of Fashion

PART TWELVE Global and transnational fashion

54 Globalization and Colonialism.

55 Extract from Global Fashion Local Tradition

56 Transnational Commodity Flows and the Global Phenomenon of the Brand

57 The Art of Dressing: Body, Gender, and Discourse on Fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s

58 Hong Kong Fashion Designers as Cultural Intermediaries: Out of Global Garment Production

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-09962-4

1-351-58366-2

9781315099620