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Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Author : Fred Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616795X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Culture, and Identity written by Fred Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.

Fashioning Identity

Author : Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474249116
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Identity written by Maria Mackinney-Valentin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays, and creating tension between personal statements and social performances. Fashioning Identity explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption,by examining a diverse series of case studies - from ninety-year old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases, the role of time, gender, age memory, novelty, copying, the body and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene. Offering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis' seminal concept of 'identity ambivalence' in Fashion, Culture and Identity (1992), Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of 'status ambivalence', in which fashioning one's own identity has become increasingly complicated.

Fashion and Its Social Agendas

Author : Diana Crane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924831
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Fashion and Its Social Agendas written by Diana Crane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed. Crane compares nineteenth-century societies—France and the United States—where social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode societies, clothes inhibit as well as facilitate communication between highly fragmented social groups. Crane extends her comparison by showing how nineteenth-century French designers created fashions that suited lifestyles of Paris elites but that were also widely adopted outside France. By contrast, today's designers operate in a global marketplace, shaped by television, film, and popular music. No longer confined to elites, trendsetters are drawn from many social groups, and most trends have short trajectories. To assess the impact of fashion on women, Crane uses voices of college-aged and middle-aged women who took part in focus groups. These discussions yield fascinating information about women's perceptions of female identity and sexuality in the fashion industry. An absorbing work, Fashion and Its Social Agendas stands out as a critical study of gender, fashion, and consumer culture. "Why do people dress the way they do? How does clothing contribute to a person's identity as a man or woman, as a white-collar professional or blue-collar worker, as a preppie, yuppie, or nerd? How is it that dress no longer denotes social class so much as lifestyle? . . . Intelligent and informative, [this] book proposes thoughtful answers to some of these questions."-Library Journal

Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia

Author : Kyunghee Pyun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319971999
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia written by Kyunghee Pyun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body. Dress reform movements around the turn of the twentieth century in the region have received little critical attention as a multicultural discourse of labor, body, gender identity, colonialism, and government authority. With contributions by leading experts of costume/textile history of China, Korea, and Japan, this book presents up-to-date scholarship using diverse methodologies in costume history, history of consumption, and international trade. Thematically organized into sections exploring the garments and uniforms, accessories, fabrics, and fashion styles of Asia, this edited volume offers case studies for students and scholars in an ever-expanding field of material culture including, but not limited to, economic history, visual culture, art history, history of journalism, and popular culture. Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia stimulates further research on the impact of modernity and imperialism in neglected areas such as military uniform, school uniform, women’s accessories, hairstyles, and textile trade.

Aware

Author : Lucy Orta
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862081627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Aware written by Lucy Orta and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reflects upon the relationship between our physical covering and constructed personal environments, our individual and social identities and the contexts in which we live. It also looks at the role of clothing in cultural and personal stories through the work of Grayson Perry, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Helen Storey and Claudia Losi. Issues of belonging and nationality, displacement and political and social confrontation are addressed by Yinka Shonibare MBE, Alexander McQueen, Sharif Waked, Alicia Framis, Meschac Gaba, Dai Rees, Yohji Yamamoto and Acconci Studio. Meanwhile, the importance of performance in the presentation of fashion and clothing, highlighting the roles that we play in our daily life, are explored through the work of Marina Abramović, Hussein Chalayan, Yoko Ono, Gillian Wearing RA and Andreas Gursky, amongst others"-- Back cover.

Fashion Identity

Author : Mito Design (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788496309579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Identity written by Mito Design (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, an identity book specific to the fashion industry! From the explosion of specialized fashion trade shows such as Bread & Butter, Magic, Pool and Project; to the increasingly burgeoning field of fashion illustration, no time has been so ripe for a look at the nuances of fashion identity. With ever increasing numbers of young entrepreneurs launching labels left and right, there is a need to draw inspiration on the one hand, and ascertain the playing field on the other. Fashion Identity satisfies both needs. This book highlights the work of more than one hundred companies from the fashion capitals around the world. Chapters include: Ads, illustration, point off purchase, toys, non-conventional identity, and more.

The Fabric of Cultures

Author : Eugenia Paulicelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135253560
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Fabric of Cultures written by Eugenia Paulicelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective and within a global framework.

"Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity "

Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567225
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity " written by Alla Myzelev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic traditions, this collection focuses on three material and conceptual links central to understanding the relationship between interior design and fashion-the body, fabric, and space. The volume considers the changing visual, material and spatial character, methodological challenges posed by, and formal, political and historiographical significance of, a wide range of British, European and North American case studies since the eighteenth century. The volume's eleven case studies allow the reader to understand connecting notions behind the formation of interiors and fashionable clothing. The essays combine a wide range of significant and challenging new examples alongside powerful reversionary analyses of the various periods, artists, designers, and their best and significant objects. Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity is concerned not only with fabric, but also with the body and the implications of embodiment in the practices of both design domains which are equally invested in the comfort, aesthetic pleasure, extension and support of the body in different and yet seemingly identical ways.

Slaves to Fashion

Author : Monica L. Miller
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391511
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Fashion written by Monica L. Miller and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century London, and Yinka Shonibare, a prominent Afro-British artist who not only styles himself as a fop but also creates ironic commentaries on black dandyism in his work. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora. Dandyism was initially imposed on black men in eighteenth-century England, as the Atlantic slave trade and an emerging culture of conspicuous consumption generated a vogue in dandified black servants. “Luxury slaves” tweaked and reworked their uniforms, and were soon known for their sartorial novelty and sometimes flamboyant personalities. Tracing the history of the black dandy forward to contemporary celebrity incarnations such as Andre 3000 and Sean Combs, Miller explains how black people became arbiters of style and how they have historically used the dandy’s signature tools—clothing, gesture, and wit—to break down limiting identity markers and propose new ways of fashioning political and social possibility in the black Atlantic world. With an aplomb worthy of her iconographic subject, she considers the black dandy in relation to nineteenth-century American literature and drama, W. E. B. Du Bois’s reflections on black masculinity and cultural nationalism, the modernist aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance, and representations of black cosmopolitanism in contemporary visual art.

Fashion on Television

Author : Helen Warner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472567455
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Fashion on Television written by Helen Warner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale. Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. Using a varied methodology, including textual and contextual analysis, this study explores the cultural uses of onscreen fashion at the level of industry, text and intertext. Fashion on Television is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cultural function of costume in a television context. Written accessibly with a multi-disciplinary approach, it will appeal to students and scholars from film and media, fashion and cultural studies, to sociology and women's studies.

Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives

Author : Noemí Pereira-Ares
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319613979
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives written by Noemí Pereira-Ares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the eighteenth century to the new millennium, from early travel account by South Asian writers to contemporary British-Asian fictions. Besides sartorial readings of other key authors and texts, the book provides an in-depth exploration of Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man (1972), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003).This work examines what an analysis of dress contributes to the interpretation of the featured texts, their contexts and identity politics, but it also considers what literature has added to past and present discussions on the South Asian dressed body in Br itain. Endowed with an interdisciplinary emphasis, the book is of interest to students and academics in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, socio-cultural studies and fashion theory.

Fashion, Identity, Image

Author : Paul Jobling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350183237
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Identity, Image written by Paul Jobling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the fashion industry responded to turn-of-the-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with queer, trans and ageing subjects? Fashion, Identity, Image unpacks these questions and many more in relation to clothing and representation, identity and body politics in British, European and American culture between 1990 and 2020. Jobling, Nesbitt and Wong explore issues of intersectionality and inclusivity through groundbreaking shows, including Maria Grazia Chiuri's 'We Should All Be Feminists' catwalk show for Dior (Spring-Summer 2017), Alexander McQueen's 'The Widows of Culloden' collection (Fall-Winter 2006), and the role of transgender models such as Oslo Grace since 2015. Looking to the future of our relationship with fashion, there's also an investigation of the android as a redemptive figure in Alessandro Michele's cross-cultural cyborg collection for Gucci (Autumn-Winter 2018/2019) and the impact of the ageing population with analysis of age and memory in work such as Magali Nougarède's Crossing the Line (2002), and pleasure and morality in fashion publicity since the 1990s for the likes of Calvin Klein, D&G and American Apparel.

Dress and Identity

Author : Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress and Identity written by Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable collection of readings discusses the relationship between dress and identity. Selections from many disciplines present a thorough examination of subjects, such as textiles and clothing, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and womens studies. Some writings are classic statements, others are contributions from recently published books and journals. Each of the books five parts features an introduction that puts entries into context.

Brand Addiction

Author : Shaoqiang Wang
Publisher : Edizioni Flamant
ISBN 13 : 9788417084035
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Brand Addiction written by Shaoqiang Wang and published by Edizioni Flamant. This book was released on 2018 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand Addiction is a compilation of complete visual identity systems designed for fashion shops.

In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446591
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the international cast of contributors to this volume being “in fashion” is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft manufacturing, packaging, marketing, and archives.

Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Author : Fred Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226138091
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Culture, and Identity written by Fred Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on interviews with designers and fashion editors, Davis shows, in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes, how our ambivalent world reveals itself through fashion. He sets out to answer questions such as 'what do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are?', and 'how does the way we dress communicate messages about our identities?', and demonstrates that much of what we assume to be individual preference really reflects deeper social and cultural forces, characterised by tensions over gender roles, social status and the expression of sexuality.

Style, Identity and Literacy

Author : Christopher Stroud
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847695981
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Style, Identity and Literacy written by Christopher Stroud and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction – both inside and outside the classroom – to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school). Combining field data gathered through a series of detailed interviews with available classroom observations, the study focuses on six adolescents from different ethnic and social backgrounds as they negotiate the learning of English against the backdrop of multilingual Singapore. This book provides social explanations for the difficulties and challenges these adolescents face by drawing on current developments in sociolinguistics, literacy studies, English language teaching and language policy.