| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) illustrations |
| Series |
Critical issues |
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Critical issues (Oxford, England)
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| Contents |
Introduction. Fashion : exploring critical issues / Barbara Brownie, Laura Petican and Johannes Reponen -- Pandora in the box : travelling around the world in the name of fashion / Lydia Maria Taylor -- The subliminal code of fashion cracked : the self-possessed pre-Raphaelite 'stunner' / Yildiz Tuncer Kilic -- Representing Twiggy in 1967 : Twiggy as a new icon / Betsy Thomas -- Shared Garments and forced choreography / Barbara Brownie and Caroline Stevenson -- Constructing the visual self : dressing for occasions / Renata Strashnaya -- Aristophanes/Hadjidakis' the birds (ornithes) : two costume case studies / Sofia Pantouvaki -- Body art : yoruba women's tattoo fashion and memories / Evelyn Omotunde Adepeko -- Where have all the flowers gone? Unisex hair salon form and function / Donna Louise Bevan -- Han-centric dress : fashion subculture or a national identity for China? / Linda T. Lee -- Interwoven : identity and dress amongst sedentary and nomadic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula / Thomas Roche and Erin Roche -- Metamodernism in fashion and style practice : authorship and the consumer / Julianne Pederson -- Montreal, city of fashion : comparison of the perceptions, the visions and the expectations of the fashion designers with those of the local consumers / Michèle Beaudoin and Manon Arcand -- Modes of the metropolis : the city as photography's fashion icon / Jess Berry -- In fashion : venues for sybaritic parades in Italy and beyond / Annette Condello -- The Colombia's sub-culture of Mexico / Amanda Watkins -- Emplaced/displaced dress : diasporan dress amongst South Asian immigrants in West Virginia / Mario J. Roman and Charlotte Jirousek -- À la mode? Fashion design protection in Canada / B. Courtney Doagoo -- Fashion nation : contemporary Italian art and the baroque-centric language of fashion / Laura Petican -- Marlies Dekkers : lingerie epitomising post-feminist identity / Daniëlle Bruggeman -- Intimate paradoxes of Victorian lingerie : the cases of George Sand and Amelia Bloomer / Dinu Gabriel Munteanu -- All tied up : the cravat and the evolution of men's fashion in nineteenth-century France / Leonard R. Koos -- Enid Collins handbags : branding, nostalgia and the power of the purse / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Footwear : transcending the mind-body dualism in fashion theory / Alexandra Sherlock -- Fashion as system or action net in 'fashion in all things' : a case in colour design of mobile phones / Yanqing Zhang and Oskar Juhlin -- Fitting in when you are different : work-based dress and asperger syndrome / Linda Shearer -- Sellers of experience : the new face of fashion retail / Marco Pedroni -- The evolution of the retail space : from luxury malls to guerilla stores : tracing the change of fashion / Cecilia Winterhalter -- Going beyond the obvious : engaging fashion design and fashion communication students in reflection and self-motivated investigation / Claire Allen and Claire Evans |
| Summary |
This ebook is an inter-disciplinary collection of topics representing conventional and unconventional approaches to fashion studies, exposing a wide variety of methodological perspectives from fields including anthropology, history, art history, sociology, and material culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 30, 2022) |
| Subject |
Fashion -- Social aspects
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming.
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Fashion -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brownie, Barbara, editor.
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Petican, Laura, 1972- editor.
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Reponen, Johannes, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781848881488 |
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1848881487 |
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