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Author : Jan Kedves
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791348230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Talking Fashion written by Jan Kedves and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these interviews, influential figures from the world of fashion share their stories, insights, and experiences
Author : Catherine Schwaab
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 : 9782080301697
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Talk about Fashion written by Catherine Schwaab and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Talk About Fashion', Catherine Schwaab uses her lengthy experience as a fashion journalist to break the subject down into lively and concise sections. The book offers a chronology of the major trends of the 20th century, introducing 30 designers and their signature pieces that define fashion today.
Author : Roger Penrose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264317
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe written by Roger Penrose and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas—string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. Arguing that string theory has veered away from physical reality by positing six extra hidden dimensions, Penrose cautions that the fashionable nature of a theory can cloud our judgment of its plausibility. In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Turning to cosmology, he argues that most of the current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe cannot be true, but that an even wilder reality may lie behind them. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to "conformal cyclic cosmology," an idea so fantastic that it could be called "conformal crazy cosmology." The result is an important critique of some of the most significant developments in physics today from one of its most eminent figures.
Author : Frances Corner
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772096
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Why Fashion Matters written by Frances Corner and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating introduction to the expanding influence of fashion from the perspectives of design, technology, sustainability, and business Fashion matters for the economy, to society, and to each of us personally. Faster than anything else, what we wear tells the story of who we are—or who we want to be. It is the most immediate form of self-expression. Yet even as fashion touches the lives of each and every one of us, its influence and the vast creative industry that it supports can seem mysterious to outsiders. In Why Fashion Matters Frances Corner, Head of London College of Fashion, guides readers into the dizzying world of this rapidly expanding, increasingly global, always exciting industry. In provocative and intriguing entries, Corner teases out the glorious intricacies and contradictions of an industry that simultaneously values technology and craft; timeless style and fast fashion; the bespoke and the mass-market; consumption and sustainability; cold, hard numbers; and creative expression. From “Shop 'til We Drop” to “The White Shirt” to “The One Trillion Dollar Business” each entry offers a unique avenue into fashion and its impact, both positive and negative, on lives around the globe.
Author : Monica Germanà
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124702
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Bond Girls written by Monica Germanà and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism. Starting off with an original re-assessment of the cultural roots of Bond's postwar masculinity, the book argues that Bond Girls emerge from masculine anxieties about the rise of female emancipation after the Second World War and persistent in the present day. Displaying parallels with the politics of race and colonialism, such tensions appear through sartorial practices as diverse as exoticism, power dressing and fetish wear, which reveal complex and often contradictory ideas about the patriarchal and imperial ideologies associated with Bond. Attention to costume, film and gender theory makes Bond Girls: Body, Gender and Fashion essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, media and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Bond.
Author : Rosie Findlay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000597164
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Insights on Fashion Journalism written by Rosie Findlay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection surveys the key debates and issues that currently face fashion journalism, going beyond traditional print media to consider its multiple contexts and iterations in an ever-evolving post-digital media environment. Bringing together a diverse range of contributors, Insights on Fashion Journalism explores the characteristics, complexities, shifts and specificities of the field. The book is organized into three sections, mapping fashion journalism’s established and emerging practices and exploring its parameters from mainstream to marginal. Section One focuses on the complex relationships between those who practice fashion journalism, the fashion industry and the media context in which they operate; Section Two considers the ways in which fashion journalism responds to the socio-political and cultural contexts in which it is created, as well as the impact these contexts have on tone, content and style; and Section Three investigates how language is employed in different media. Approaching fashion journalism through a critically diverse lens, this collection is an asset for academics and students in the fields of fashion studies, journalism, communication, cultural studies and digital media.
Author : Richard Thompson Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501180088
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Dress Codes written by Richard Thompson Ford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted
Author : Jay Diamond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1609015274
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The World of Fashion written by Jay Diamond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Fashion, 5th Edition is the essential resource for students seeking to understand the fashion industry. Starting with an introduction to fashion's history and its evolving role within the global marketplace, this book provides in-depth coverage of the design, manufacturing and merchandising segments of the fashion industry.
Author : Roby Graham
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665760370
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Fashion Girl 3.0 written by Roby Graham and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daphne Sandra Bates daughter and granddaughter of the previous Fashion Girls becomes the third woman to be called Fashion Girl. Follow Miss Bates as she learns how to be a superheroine, her trials and tribulations, her presentation to the world, her first mission and a final battle with her mother that will make it a must read story. For mature readers over 18 years of age.
Author : Uwe Westphal
Publisher : Seemann Henschel
ISBN 13 : 9783894878061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939 written by Uwe Westphal and published by Seemann Henschel. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT HAUSVOGTEIPLATZ Something unique emerged in the heart of Berlin in the nineteenth century: a creative centre for fashion and ready-made clothing. The hundreds of clothing companies that were established here manufactured modern clothing and developed new designs that were sold throughout Germany and the world. This industry reached the height of its success in the 1920s. Freed from their corsets, sophisticated women of the time dressed in the "Berlin chic" sold by Valentin Manheimer, Herrmann Gerson, or the Wertheim department stores. After 1933, however, most Jewish clothing industrialists were confronted with hatred and violence. Many of their companies were "Aryanized" while they themselves were robbed, displaced, and murdered. Under new Aryan management, these companies created conservative clothing that represented an entirely different image of women.
Author : Brian Moeran
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1629583758
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Magic of Fashion written by Brian Moeran and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do women all over the world read fashion magazines like Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Marie Claire? How do editorial, art, and advertising staff put together the monthly editions of each title in France, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, and the U.S.? Based on the author’s two decades of ethnographic fieldwork and content analysis, and drawing on anthropological theories, The Magic of Fashion argues that the fashion industry makes commercial use of practices and rituals commonly found in magical and religious rites to enchant its readers. The book -argues that fashion magazines make use of professional magicians—editors, art directors, photographers, business executives—who perform magic-like practices to create the fantasies, glamour, seduction, and transformations characterizing the fashion and beauty industries; -discusses how such beauty products as hair gels and glossy photos, among many others, are used to captivate and mesmerize readers much as incenses, magical elixirs, and spells enchant worshippers; -explains how fashion magazines entice readers with an “alchemy of refined and powerfully addictive contrasts” designed to be irresistible and seductive; -suggests that such forms of manipulation derived from shamanism and animism can be found in all forms of cultural production.
Author : Imogen Edwards-Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416543198
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Fashion Babylon written by Imogen Edwards-Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAUTION: Reading this book will forever change the way you peruse the racks at Bergdorf's or flip through the pages of Vogue. Taking the reader through six months in a designer's life, Fashion Babylon follows an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond. Structured around three of the annual "must" industry events, this irresistible work of reportage goes inside the well-cut seams of the fashion world, where women are paid tens of thousands of dollars for simply getting dressed and where a wrong skirt length can cost you your career. You'll find out how a collection is put together -- from the objects of inspiration to the catwalk, into the shops and, hopefully, onto the cover of a magazine -- and learn who goes to the shows and where they sit...and whose backside they have to kiss to get there. Witty, naughty and jam-packed with celebrity gossip, Fashion Babylon decodes the markups and the comedowns, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts behind one of the most lucrative and secretive businesses in the world.
Author : Jennifer Grayer Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Fashion Fads through American History written by Jennifer Grayer Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for any reader interested in fashion, history, or popular culture, this text is an essential resource that presents vital information and informed analysis of key fashion fads not found elsewhere. Fashion Fads Through American History: Fitting Clothes into Context explores fashion fads from the 19th century to the current decade, providing the reader with specific insights into each era. The text draws fascinating connections between what we see in fashion phenomena—including apparel, accessories, hair, and makeup—and events in popular culture in general and across history. Written by an art and design historian, the book is ideal for a wide range of student research projects, especially those in American history, social studies, art, and literature classes. It covers topics overlooked by fashion history texts because of their origination outside of the formal fashion system. Each entry provides critical historical context to help readers understand why the fad originated and why it resonated with consumers, and presents vital information and analysis of key fashions that were intimately related to currents in contemporary culture. The text also considers the resurgence of some fashion fads in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and provides context for their relevance.
Author : Jane Branam
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604941987
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Power Path to Love written by Jane Branam and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find a Soul Mate and Get in a Committed Relationship In Power Path to Love you will find: Power Principles that help you attract and bond with a mate How to overcome negative self talk and body image Easy and fun methods to connect to your Inner Power and self-worth Real life stories of people who have found long-term relationships What bonds two people together Concrete examples of common dating and relationship mistakes How to love yourself and attract love from others Ways to get on the Power Path to Love About the Author For the last sixteen years, Dr. Branam has helped people quit giving away their personal power in relationships and start using it to connect with a soul mate. www.PowerPathProject.co
Author : Margaret Maynard
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868405155
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Out of Line written by Margaret Maynard and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Australian women have created their own sense of national and regional identity through their dress and in so doing puts a new slant on the history of Australian women's fashion in the twentieth century. This book argues that Australian women's fashions may be superficially derivative, but that there are patterns of dress.
Author : Bonnie English
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350150908
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Western Fashion written by Bonnie English and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it. A Cultural History of Western Fashion guides you through the relationships between haute couture and ready-to-wear designer fashions, popular culture, big business, high-tech production, as well as traditional and social media. Exploring fashion's interdisciplinary nature, English and Munroe also highlight the parallel evolution of clothing design and the other visual arts over the last 150 years. This new edition includes expanded coverage of the build up to the First World War and brings this classic text up to date. There is also a new chapter on smart textiles and technology, exploring the work of Hussein Chalayan and Iris Van Herpen among others, and expanded coverage of the role of sustainability in the contemporary fashion industry, including biosynthetic textile production and Stella McCartney's use of vegan leather.
Author : Melissa Marra-Alvarez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350164364
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Food and Fashion written by Melissa Marra-Alvarez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, examines the influence of food culture through the lens of fashion over the last 250 years. It focuses on the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion and how these connect to broader socio-cultural change, examining how vital both have been in expressing cultural movements across centuries, and specifically exploring the role food plays in fashionable expression. With its superb selection of images, and thought-provoking and engaging discussion, Food and Fashion appeals to fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in food and food studies, including scholars and students, those who enjoy the fashion of food, and all who appreciate the visual culture of food, fashion, and art.
