Fashion cultures : theories, explorations and analysis /
edited by Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson.
- 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban outfitting: the city and the spaces of fashion culture / Fashioning new forms of consumption: the case of Paul Smith / Be our brand: fashion and personalization on the web / Visual seduction and perverse compliance: reviewing food fantasies, large appetites and grotesque bodies / "No one expects me anywhere": invisible women, ageing and the fashion industry / David Gilbert -- Louise Crewe and Alison Goodrum -- Sarah Berry -- Lorraine Gamman -- Pamela Church Gibson. Part 1: Shopping, spaces and selling. Yesterday's emblems and tomorrow's commondities: the return of the repressed in fashion imagery today / Catwalk politics / On the move: fashion photography and the single girl in the 1960s / Escaping to reality: fashion photography in the 1990s / Caroline Evans -- Nathalie Khan -- Hilary Radner -- Elliott Smedley. Part 2: Catwalk and after. On wearing the film: Madam Satan (1930) / Bombay ishtyle / Making up the truth: on lies, lipstick and Friedrich Nietzsche / Cary Grant / Grace Kelly / Undressing the Latin lover: Marcello Mastroianni, fashion and La dolce vita / The dandy laid bare: embodying practices and fashion for men / Darcy's escape: an icon in the making / Jane M. Gaines -- Rachel Dwyer -- Catherine Constable -- Edward Buscombe -- Stella Bruzzi -- Jacqueline Reich -- Christopher Breward -- Sarah Cardwell -- Gwyneth Paltrow / Sarah Gilligan. Part 3: Images, icons and impulses. Fashion as a culture industry / Rock, fashion and performativity / The Italian job: football, fashion and that sarong / "My man, let me pull your coat to something": Malcolm X / Performing masculinities: dandyism and male fashion in 1960s-70s British cinema / Angela McRobbie -- Noel McLaughlin -- Stella Bruzzi -- Carol Tulloch -- Moya Luckett. Part 4: Spectacle and subculture. Flash trash: Gianni Versace and the theory and practice of glamour / Redressing the balance: patriarchy, postmodernism and feminism / "I know nothing about fashion: there's no point in interviewing me": the use and value of oral history to the fashion hstorian / Museums as fashion media / Rʹeka C.V. Buckley and Stephen Gundle -- Pamela Church Gibson -- Clare Lomas -- Fiona Anderson. Part 5: Modes and methodologies.
9781315008882 (e-book)
Fashion--Social aspects. Mass media--Social aspects.