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The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion : Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling.
Fashion is bound up with promoting the ''new'', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2009.
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| Series: | Dress, body, culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Understanding Aesthetic Markets ; 2 An Aesthetic Marketplace: Assembling 'Economy' and 'Culture'; 3 The Aesthetic Economy: The Production of Value in the Field of Fashion Modelling; Part II Fashion Buying: A Case Study ; 4 Introduction to Case Study; 5 Understanding High Fashion: Retailing and Buying; 6 Markets in Motion: Fashion Temporality and Materiality; 7 Tacit Aesthetic Knowledge: The Fashion Sense and Sensibility of Fashion Buyers; 8 The Cultural Economy of Fashion Buying ; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.