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Indian Fashion
Tradition, Innovation, Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Fashion in India is distinctly unique, in its aesthetics, systems, designers and influences. Indian Fashion is the first study of its kind to examine the social, political, global and local elements that give shape to this multifaceted center. Spanning India's long historical contribution to global...
Fashion In Focus
Concepts, Practices and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
The study of fashion has exploded in recent decades, yet what this all means or quite where it might take us is not clear. This new book helps to bring fashion into focus, with a comprehensive guide to the key theories, perspectives and developments in the field.
Tim Edwards includes coverage...
Fashion and Everyday Life
London and New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau's notion of 'the everyday' as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shaped by everyday life. Looking historically for the imprint of fashion within everyday routines such as going to work or shopping, or in leisure activities...
by Andrew Reilly, Professor Alison Goodrum, Kim K. P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Key Concepts for the Fashion Industry is the first concise and accessible overview of fashion theories for students on any fashion course. Providing an easy understanding of the core concepts, from scarcity to conformity, this book offers clear, practical examples and accessible case studies, making...
When Clothes Become Fashion
Design and Innovation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail.
Fashion is both medium and message...
Changing Fashion
A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history,...
The Hidden History of American Fashion
Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely forgotten. Focusing on female designers, the authors reclaim a place in history for the women who created...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women’s independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation...
Fashion Media
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The fashion media is in the midst of deep social and technological change. Including a broad range of case studies, from fashion plates to fashion films, and from fashion magazines to fashion blogs, this ground-breaking book provides an up-to-date examination of the role and significance of this field.
Winner...
Fashion and Museums
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice.
Chapters explore the role of fashion...
Dress, Fashion and Technology
From Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology.
Over the course of...
The Fashion Forecasters
A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The Fashion Forecasters is the first book to reveal the hidden history of color and trend forecasting and to...
Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion
New Perspectives from Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations...
Sustainable Fashion
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment...