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1 online resource (533 p.) |
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Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Ser |
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Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Editors -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Fashion theories and histories -- 1. Worlds with no fashion? The birth of eurocentrism -- Worlds with no fashion -- Multiple worlds -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. Aesthetics of fashion -- Fashion's challenge to philosophy -- Fashion's challenge to aesthetics -- Aesthetics of fashion and fashion's aesthetics -- A new aesthetic agenda -- Notes -- 3. If philosophy were a fashion show: what then? -- Value systems as costumes |
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Interpretive puzzles -- Received wisdom about clothing -- The received wisdom in Thoreau -- The Platonic legacy -- The Gay Science on dress -- The actor's clothes -- Philosophy's costume -- Notes -- 4. Contemporary avant-garde fashion -- Defining ""what is 'avant-garde'? -- Theories of the avant-garde -- The neo- and contemporary avant-garde -- Toward an avant-garde in contemporary fashion: modernity and post-modernity -- Contemporary avant-garde fashion as art -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. Economic theories of fashion -- Introduction -- Fashion industry as an organization -- Vertical integration |
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Inventory level -- Product differentiation -- Consumer behavior, and their relations to the industry -- Created shortages by brands -- Traditional utility -- Social interaction theory, including conspicuous consumption and Leibenstain's theory -- Interactions between Consumers and Firms -- Fashion Cycle -- Welfare -- Conclusion and further areas of study -- Notes -- 6. A posthuman turn in fashion -- Severed heads, androids, and aliens -- A posthuman perspective -- A posthuman aesthetic -- A posthuman critique -- A posthuman take on sustainability -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Part II: Fashion practices: from the museum to the workplace and beyond -- 7. Affect, haptics, and heterotopia in fashion curation -- Introduction -- Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018) and Mme Grès: Sculptural Fashion (2012) -- Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019) and Rik Wouters & the Private Utopia (2016) -- Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011) and Olivier Theyskens: She Walks in Beauty (2017) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. The future generation of fashion: how higher education contextualizes sustainability as a key design tool -- Background and context |
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Implementing sustainable principles -- Is sustainability changing creative education? -- The role of the educator -- Current challenges and barriers -- Towards a sustainable future -- Notes -- 9. Reflecting on the future of fashion design education: new education models and emerging topics in fashion design -- Contemporary challenges for post-modern industries and education models -- Universities in transformation and the rise of design education -- Breaking the Silo of fashion design education -- Fashion design education perspectives -- Authors' statement -- Notes |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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10. Abstract pattern cutting as a design tool: Accidental Cutting and Subtraction Cutting methodologies |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Manlow, Veronica
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Wissinger, Elizabeth
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| ISBN |
9780429554964 |
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0429554966 |
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