The fashion reader

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007
Subject:: Clothing and dress
Fashion
Contributor:: Welters, Linda
Lillethun, Abby
ISBN:: 9781845204853, 1845204859, 9781845204860, 1845204867, 1845204859 (cloth), 9781845204853 (cloth), 1845204867 (pbk.), and 9781845204860 (pbk.)
Description:: xxiii, 456 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [426]-448) and index
Contents:: Part I. A brief history of modern fashion : From Baroque elegance to the French Revolution: 1770-1790 / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell ; From Neoclassicism to the Industrial Revolution: 1790-1860 / Susan North ; The Victorian and Edwardian eras: 1860-1910 / Cynthia Cooper; The modern era: 1910-1960 / Tiffany Webber-Hanchett ; The postmodern age: 1960-2006 -- Part II. Fashion theory : The power of fashion / Kurt Land and Gladys Engel Lang ; Written clothing / Roland Barthes ; The fashion system / Grant McCracken ; The dressed body / Joanne Entwistle ; Re-orienting fashion theory / Sandra Niessen ; Fashion at the edge / Caroline Evans -- Part III. Fashion and identity : Is it a girl or a boy? Gender identity and children's clothing / Colleen R. Callahan and Jo B. Paoletti ; Sentimental culture and the problem of fashion / Karen Halttunen ; Men and women: dressing the part / Jo B. Paoletti and Claudia Brush Kidwell ; The zoot suit and style warfare / Stuart Cosgrove ; Invisible men? / Shaun Cole ; Subculture: the unnatural break / Dick Hebdige -- Part IV. The geography of dress : The highlander myth : Hugh Trevor-Roper ; Ghulam Sakina: a case study in transnational design production / Claire Dwyer and Philip Crang ; World cities of fashion / David Gilbert ; Auckland as a globalizing fashion city / Alison Goodrum, Wendy Larner and Maureen Molloy ; Suitably attired: well-dressed men have worn the same thing for century new: a history and appreciation of the suit / William Hamilton -- Part V. Politics of fashion : Feminism and fashion / Elizabeth Wilson ; Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world / Peter Jackson ; Finding the moral fiber: why reform is urgently needed for a fair cotton trade / Oxfam Briefing Paper ; Not only Nike's doing it: "sweating" and the contemporary labor market / Richard McIntyre and Yngve Ramstad -- Part IV: Fashion and theory : A second look at the big squees / Jennifer Ruark ; Nap time: historicizing the Afro / Robin D.G. Kelley ; "Material girl": Madonna as postmodern heroine / Susan Bordo ; Extreme surgery / Graham Lawton -- Part VII. Fashion and art : Art and fashion / Michael Boodro ; Fashion rendering / Richard Martin ; On the marked change in fashion photography / Olivier Zahm ; Viktor & Rolf / Andrew Bolton -- Part VIII. Fashion in the media : Fashion on the page / Christopher Breward ; Supermodels and super bodies / Jennifer Craik ; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Kathleen Craughwell-Varda ; Dressing the part: Sternberg, Dietrich and costume / Sybil DelGaudio ; Sex and the city in the British fashion press / Anna König ; Punk and neo-tribal body art / Daniel Wojcik ; Selling culture: Bloomingdale's, Diana Vreeland, and the new aristocracy of taste in Reagan's America / Debora Silverman -- Part IX. From haute couture to the street : When Worth was king / Anne Hollander ; The dressmaking world / Thèrése Bonney and Louise Bonney ; Torontonian taste in couture / Alexandra Plamer ; Trickle down, bubble up / Ted Polhemus ; Secondhand dresses and the role of the ragmarket / Angela McRobbie ; Punks and pirates: the costiff collection of Vivienne Westwood / Sonnet Stanfill ; Japanese street fashion: the urge to be seen and to be heard / Yuniya Kawamura -- Part X. The fashion business : Inside design: a look at the method behind the madness / Katy Chapman ; Business sense: it takes a lot more than individual flair to stay at the top / John Andrews ; The diary of a dress: Alexander McQueen shares the saga of how one of his inspirations -- a Peter Arnold orchid photograph -- evolved from simple sketch to production nightmare to a sunning gown fit for supermodel Naomi Campbell / Lisa Armstrong ; The Islamic factor / Nicholas Coleridge ; Dorothy Shaver: promoter of "The American Look" / Tiffany Webber-Hanchett ; McFashion is entertaining / Michelle Lee ; Born in the USA: the growing premium-denim market goes global / Julia Fein Azoulay ; Four models fashion relationships / Simona Segre Reinach ; Fashion in India / Vandana Bhandari ; "Two for a penny" / Pietra Rivoli -- Part XI. Future of fashion : What happened to fashion? / Teri Agins ; Implications for the appearance-alteration industries / Ted Polhemus ; Born to buy / Juliet B. Schor ; Dreamweavers: weaving the future / Cathy Newman ; Made in China / Arthur C. Mead
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: TT507 .F3545 2007
Available

c.1