The fashion reader / edited by Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun.
Contributor(s): Welters, Linda [editor.]
| Lillethun, Abby [editor.]Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021Edition: Third editionDescription: 520 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0046762265ISBN: 9781350059139 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Fashion | Clothing and dress -- History | Beauty and Fashion | Cultural studies: customs & traditions | Fashion & textiles | Cultural studies: fashion & society | Fashion & textiles | Popular culture | Media studiesDDC classification: 391 LOC classification: TT507 | .F3545 2021Summary: Designed for students, scholars, and those interested in contemporary fashion, this book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a range of sources - books, professional and academic journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international industry. Many of the essays are drawn from books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, bringing together new and established concepts to offer a solid grounding in the history, business and culture of fashion. Fourteen of the chapters were written expressly for this edition. For added context, each of the fifteen parts has an introduction from the editors, guiding you through the interdisciplinary world of fashion studies, and each part concludes with suggestions for further reading. This third edition has been substantially revised to highlight issues of sustainability, identity, the body, as well as global perspectives from "The Commodification of Ethnicity" to "The Cultural Heritage of Tattooing."
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In The Fashion Reader , Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international industry.
Many of the essays are drawn from books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, bringing together new and established concepts to offer a solid grounding in the history, business and culture of fashion. Fourteen of the chapters were written expressly for this edition. For added context, each of the fifteen parts has an introduction from the editors, guiding you through the interdisciplinary world of fashion studies, and each part concludes with suggestions for further reading.
This third edition has been substantially revised to highlight issues of sustainability, identity, the body, as well as global perspectives from "The Commodification of Ethnicity" to "The Cultural Heritage of Tattooing."
Previous edition: Oxford: Berg, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Designed for students, scholars, and those interested in contemporary fashion, this book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a range of sources - books, professional and academic journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international industry. Many of the essays are drawn from books, journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues, bringing together new and established concepts to offer a solid grounding in the history, business and culture of fashion. Fourteen of the chapters were written expressly for this edition. For added context, each of the fifteen parts has an introduction from the editors, guiding you through the interdisciplinary world of fashion studies, and each part concludes with suggestions for further reading. This third edition has been substantially revised to highlight issues of sustainability, identity, the body, as well as global perspectives from "The Commodification of Ethnicity" to "The Cultural Heritage of Tattooing."
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Acknowledgments (p. xii)
- Notes on Contributors (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 A Brief History of Fashion (p. 6)
- Part Introduction Linda Welters (p. 7)
- 1 From prehistory through Byzantium (p. 11)
- 2 Europe to 1700 (p. 24)
- 3 From baroque elegance to the French Revolution: 1700-1790 (p. 37)
- 4 From neoclassicism to the Industrial Revolution: 1790-1860 (p. 50)
- 5 The Victorian and Edwardian eras: 1860-1910 (p. 64)
- 6 The modern era: 1910-1960 (p. 76)
- 7 The postmodern age: 1960-2020 (p. 90)
- 8 Fashion outside the West (p. 104)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part 1 (p. 115)
- Part 2 Fashion Theory (p. 116)
- Part Introduction Abby Liilethun (p. 117)
- 9 Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture (p. 124)
- 10 The habitus and the space of life-styles (p. 127)
- 11 The fashion system (p. 131)
- 12 The dressed body (p. 134)
- 13 Re-orienting fashion theory (p. 145)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part II (p. 150)
- Part 3 Psychology of Fashion (p. 151)
- Part Introduction (p. 152)
- 14 The fundamental motives (p. 155)
- 15 Blue or pink? That is the question: Homophobia and its influence on the gendering of colour symbolism (p. 159)
- 16 Shopping for fashion (p. 163)
- 17 Lacan and fashion (p. 166)
- 18 Spirited individuality: Halloween (p. 169)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part III (p. 173)
- Part 4 Fashion and Identity (p. 174)
- Part Introduction (p. 175)
- 19 Dress and identity (p. 178)
- 20 All out in the wash: Convict stain removal in the Narryana heritage museum's dress collection (p. 182)
- 21 Subculture: The unnatural break (p. 186)
- 22 1980s and beyond: Queering fashion (p. 193)
- 23 Islamic fashion and the global islamic revival movement (p. 197)
- 24 The commodification of ethnicity: Vlisco fabrics and wax cloth fashion in Ghana (p. 200)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part IV (p. 206)
- Part 5 Fashion: Space and Place (p. 207)
- Part Introduction Linda Welters (p. 208)
- 25 Fashion in peripheral places: The New Zealand story (p. 211)
- 26 Travelling the street style blogosphere: Amateur photography (p. 213)
- 27 Flagship stores: Scaling fashion's luxury spaces (p. 216)
- 28 Globalization reconsidered: The historical geography of modern western male attire (p. 220)
- 29 Nailed it: Producing and consuming in Tokyo's nail industry (p. 227)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part V (p. 232)
- Part 6 Politics Of Fashion (p. 233)
- Part Introduction (p. 234)
- 30 Fashioning the colonial subject (p. 237)
- 31 Khartoum at night (p. 242)
- 32 The soul wide world: The "Afro look" in South Africa from the 1970s to the new millennium (p. 245)
- 33 How white became the color of suffrage (p. 250)
- 36 Worker rights, factory inspection and fashion (p. 252)
- 35 Trade policies and the textiles and apparel industries (p. 259)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part VI (p. 268)
- Part 7 Fashion and the Body (p. 269)
- Part Introduction Abby Lillethun (p. 270)
- 36 The cultural heritage of tattooing: A brief history (p. 273)
- 37 Consumptive corsetry and romantic fashion (p. 276)
- 38 Outcomes of cosmetic surgery (p. 281)
- 39 Hair and human identity (p. 283)
- 40 Disciplining corpulence: The case of plus-size fashion models (p. 287)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part VII (p. 289)
- Part 8 Fashion and Art (p. 290)
- Part Introduction (p. 291)
- 41 Fashion (p. 294)
- 42 Putting artwear in context (p. 302)
- 43 Curating Chanel (p. 308)
- 44 One work: Elsa Schiaparelli & Salvador Data: The Tears Dress (1938) (p. 314)
- 45 Dynamic static (p. 317)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part VIII (p. 322)
- Part 9 Fashion, Media and Communication (p. 323)
- Part Introduction Linda Welters (p. 324)
- 46 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (p. 327)
- 47 Film stars as fashion icons (p. 333)
- 48 Style narratives: Sixties in the twenty-first century (p. 339)
- 49 The celebrity as designer of his/her own fashion brand (p. 344)
- 50 A global discourse: The new millennium (p. 348)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part IX (p. 352)
- Part 10 From Haute Couture to the Street (p. 353)
- Part Introduction (p. 354)
- 51 The dressmaking world (p. 357)
- 52 A new house, a new femininity (p. 361)
- 53 Trickle down, bubble up (p. 365)
- 54 Punks and Pirates: The Costiff collection of Vivienne Westwood (p. 370)
- 55 Connoisseurs of trash in a world full of it (p. 374)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part X (p. 377)
- Part 11 Design and Manufacture (p. 378)
- Part Introduction Linda Welters (p. 379)
- 56 The future of fashion forecasting (p. 382)
- 57 Hedi Slimane and the reinvention of menswear (p. 385)
- 58 At work in the vintage archive (p. 389)
- 59 Luxury Indian fashion (p. 393)
- 60 The sweatshop, child labor, and exploitation issues in the garment industry (p. 397)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part XI (p. 401)
- Part 12 Marketing and Merchandising (p. 402)
- Part Introduction (p. 403)
- 61 Spectacle (p. 406)
- 62 Surprise ambush: The unexpected and unscheduled (p. 409)
- 63 The A&F brand/story (p. 411)
- 64 Disruptive business model innovations in the fashion retail industry (p. 417)
- 65 What is the future of the fashion show? (p. 423)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part XII (p. 428)
- Part 13 The Fashion Business and Global Economics (p. 429)
- Part Introduction Abby Lillethun (p. 430)
- 66 Made in_. (p. 432)
- 67 Zara: The business model for fast fashion (p. 438)
- 68 Contemporary South Asian youth cultures and the fashion landscape (p. 444)
- 69 Moroccan fashion and economics (p. 448)
- 70 Used clothing markets in the global south Andrew Brooks (p. 453)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part XIII (p. 457)
- Part 14 Sustainability and Fashion (p. 458)
- Part Introduction (p. 459)
- 71 Textile production (p. 462)
- 72 The Filippa K story (p. 467)
- 73 Sustainability in textiles and fashion: How far have we come since 2000? (p. 470)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part XIV (p. 476)
- Part 15 Future of Fashion (p. 477)
- Part Introduction (p. 478)
- 74 Amazon has developed an AI fashion designer (p. 481)
- 75 Sewing up a storm: How robots and other new technologies are shaping a new era of manufacturing (p. 483)
- 76 Forecasting fashion's future (p. 486)
- Annotated Guide to Further Reading for Part XV (p. 490)
- Bibliography (p. 491)
- Index (p. 529)
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