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Fashion cultures : theories, explorations, and analysis / edited by Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson.

Contributor(s): Bruzzi, Stella, 1962- | Gibson, Pamela ChurchPublisher: London : Routledge, 2000Description: xv, 399 p. ill., ports.; 25 cm001: 14731ISBN: 0415206855; 9780415206853; 0415206863; 9780415206860Subject(s): Fashion -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 391 LOC classification: GT525
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From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and shopping.
Fashion Cultures:
* re-addresses the fashionable image, considering the work of designers from Paul Smith to Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan
* investigates the radicalism of fashion photography, from William Klein to Corinne Day
* considers fashion for the 'unfashionable body' (the old and the big), football and fashion, and geographies of style
* explores the relationship between fashion and the moving image in discussions of female cinema icons - from Grace Kelly to Gwyneth Paltrow - and iconic male images - from Cary Grant to Malcolm X and Mr Darcy - that have redefined notions of masculinity and cool
* makes a significant intervention into contemporary gender politics and theory, exploring themes such as spectacle, masquerade, and the struggle between fashion and feminism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of illustrations (p. xi)
  • Notes on contributors (p. xii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xvi)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part 1 Shopping, spaces and selling (p. 5)
  • 1 Urban Outfitting: The City and the Spaces of Fashion Culture (p. 7)
  • 2 Fashioning New forms of Consumption: The Case of Paul Smith (p. 25)
  • 3 Be Our Brand: Fashion and Personalization on the Web (p. 49)
  • 4 Visual Seduction and Perverse Compliance: Reviewing Food Fantasies, Large Appetites and Grotesque Bodies (p. 61)
  • 5 'No One Expects Me Anywhere': Invisible Women, Ageing and the Fashion Industry (p. 79)
  • Part 2 Catwalk and after (p. 91)
  • 6 Yesterday's Emblems and Tomorrow's Commodities: The Return of the Repressed in Fashion Imagery Today (p. 93)
  • 7 Catwalk Politics (p. 114)
  • 8 On the Move: Fashion Photography and the Single Girl in the 1960s (p. 128)
  • 9 Escaping to Reality: Fashion Photography in the 1990s (p. 143)
  • Part 3 Images, icons and impulses (p. 157)
  • 10 On Wearing the Film: Madam Satan (1930) (p. 159)
  • 11 Bombay Ishtyle (p. 178)
  • 12 Making Up the Truth: On Lies, Lipstick and Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 191)
  • 13 Cary Grant (p. 201)
  • 14 Grace Kelly (p. 205)
  • 15 Undressing the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Fashion and La Dolce Vita (p. 209)
  • 16 The Dandy Laid Bare: Embodying Practices and Fashion for Men (p. 221)
  • 17 Darcy's Escape: An Icon in the Making (p. 239)
  • 18 Gwyneth Paltrow (p. 245)
  • Part 4 Spectacle and subculture (p. 251)
  • 19 Fashion As a Culture Industry (p. 253)
  • 20 Rock, Fashion and Performativity (p. 264)
  • 21 The Italian Job: Football, Fashion and That Sarong (p. 286)
  • 22 'My Man, Let Me Pull Your Coat to Something': Malcolm X (p. 298)
  • 23 Performing Masculinities: Dandyism and Male Fashion in 1960s-70s British Cinema (p. 315)
  • Part 5 Modes and methodologies (p. 329)
  • 24 Flash Trash: Gianni Versace and the Theory and Practice of Glamour (p. 331)
  • 25 Redressing the Balance: Patriarchy, Postmodernism and Feminism (p. 349)
  • 26 'I Know Nothing About Fashion: There's No Point in Interviewing Me': The Use and Value of Oral History to the Fashion Historian (p. 363)
  • 27 Museums as Fashion Media (p. 371)
  • Index (p. 390)

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