Cargando…

Fashion exploring critical issues

This ebook is an inter-disciplinary collection of topics representing conventional and unconventional approaches to fashion studies, exposing a wide variety of methodological perspectives from fields including anthropology, history, art history, sociology, and material culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brownie, Barbara (Editor ), Petican, Laura, 1972- (Editor ), Reponen, Johannes (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom Inter-Disciplinary Press 2012
Edición:First edition
Colección:Critical issues (Oxford, England)
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Fashion : exploring critical issues / Barbara Brownie, Laura Petican and Johannes Reponen
  • Pandora in the box : travelling around the world in the name of fashion / Lydia Maria Taylor
  • The subliminal code of fashion cracked : the self-possessed pre-Raphaelite 'stunner' / Yildiz Tuncer Kilic
  • Representing Twiggy in 1967 : Twiggy as a new icon / Betsy Thomas
  • Shared Garments and forced choreography / Barbara Brownie and Caroline Stevenson
  • Constructing the visual self : dressing for occasions / Renata Strashnaya
  • Aristophanes/Hadjidakis' the birds (ornithes) : two costume case studies / Sofia Pantouvaki
  • Body art : yoruba women's tattoo fashion and memories / Evelyn Omotunde Adepeko
  • Where have all the flowers gone? Unisex hair salon form and function / Donna Louise Bevan
  • Han-centric dress : fashion subculture or a national identity for China? / Linda T. Lee
  • Interwoven : identity and dress amongst sedentary and nomadic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula / Thomas Roche and Erin Roche
  • Metamodernism in fashion and style practice : authorship and the consumer / Julianne Pederson
  • Montreal, city of fashion : comparison of the perceptions, the visions and the expectations of the fashion designers with those of the local consumers / Michèle Beaudoin and Manon Arcand
  • Modes of the metropolis : the city as photography's fashion icon / Jess Berry
  • In fashion : venues for sybaritic parades in Italy and beyond / Annette Condello
  • The Colombia's sub-culture of Mexico / Amanda Watkins
  • Emplaced/displaced dress : diasporan dress amongst South Asian immigrants in West Virginia / Mario J. Roman and Charlotte Jirousek
  • À la mode? Fashion design protection in Canada / B. Courtney Doagoo
  • Fashion nation : contemporary Italian art and the baroque-centric language of fashion / Laura Petican
  • Marlies Dekkers : lingerie epitomising post-feminist identity / Daniëlle Bruggeman
  • Intimate paradoxes of Victorian lingerie : the cases of George Sand and Amelia Bloomer / Dinu Gabriel Munteanu
  • All tied up : the cravat and the evolution of men's fashion in nineteenth-century France / Leonard R. Koos
  • Enid Collins handbags : branding, nostalgia and the power of the purse / Jacque Lynn Foltyn
  • Footwear : transcending the mind-body dualism in fashion theory / Alexandra Sherlock
  • Fashion as system or action net in 'fashion in all things' : a case in colour design of mobile phones / Yanqing Zhang and Oskar Juhlin
  • Fitting in when you are different : work-based dress and asperger syndrome / Linda Shearer
  • Sellers of experience : the new face of fashion retail / Marco Pedroni
  • The evolution of the retail space : from luxury malls to guerilla stores : tracing the change of fashion / Cecilia Winterhalter
  • Going beyond the obvious : engaging fashion design and fashion communication students in reflection and self-motivated investigation / Claire Allen and Claire Evans.