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Book Synopsis The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia by : Richard Harrison Martin
Download or read book The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia written by Richard Harrison Martin and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia is sure to please students and fashion devotees with well-organized and information-intensive essays (complete with biographical facts) on more than 200 designers, providing a more reliable critical measure and a larger perspective than previously available.
Book Synopsis St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture by : Thomas Riggs
Download or read book St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture written by Thomas Riggs and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture presents entries that examine the history and contributions of hip hop to American and global culture. It provides academic and public libraries with a much-needed authoritative reference resource defining, exploring, and analyzing this significant aspect of culture and history.
Book Synopsis St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by : Tom Pendergast
Download or read book St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture written by Tom Pendergast and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millenium-inspired fascination with 20th-century studies cannot be fully satisfied without a comprehensive and scholarly look at popular culture. With its emphasis on ideas, people, events and products that symbolize America, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum resource that will find use among a wide variety of users. Major topics include: television, movies, theater, art, books, magazines, radio, music, sports, fashion, health, politics, trends, community life and advertising.
Book Synopsis The A to Z of the Fashion Industry by : Francesca Sterlacci
Download or read book The A to Z of the Fashion Industry written by Francesca Sterlacci and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of clothing begins with the origin of man, and fashionable dress can be traced as far back as 25,000 years ago. Recent scientific explorations have uncovered graves in northern Russia with skeletons covered in beads made of mammoth ivory that once adorned clothing made of animal skin. The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans each made major contributions to fashion's legacy from their textile innovations, unique clothing designs and their early use of accessories, cosmetics, and jewelry. During the Middle Ages, 'fashion trends' emerged as trade and commerce thrived allowing the merchant class to afford to emulate the fashions worn by royals. However, it is widely believed that fashion didn't became an industry until the industrial and commercial revolution during the latter part of the 18th century. Since then, the industry has grown exponentially. Today, fashion is one of the biggest businesses in the world, with hundreds of billions of dollars in turnover and employing tens of millions of workers. It is both a profession, an industry, and in the eyes of many, an art. The A to Z of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry by : Francesca Sterlacci
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry written by Francesca Sterlacci and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first animal skin body coverings, to today’s high fashion collections, fashion has held an important role in the evolution of mankind. The fashion industry has, and continues to make, major contributions to our cultural and social environment. It is an industry that responds to our inherent longing for tribal belonging, our socio-economic needs, individual lifestyles, status stratification and profession apparel requirements. The fashion industry is fast-paced, complex and ever changing, in response to consumer needs. Throughout the world, vast numbers of people contribute to this industry, each with the shared goal of supplying an end product of a particular price point directed at a target consumer. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,400 cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the fashion industry.
Download or read book Dress Codes written by Ruth Rubinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with illustrations, this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority, gender, seduction (the sexy look, the alluring look, the glamorous look, the vulnerable look), wealth and beauty, youth and health, and leisure and political hierarchy. Taken together, the chapters offer to the student and the general reader a complete "semiotics of clothing" in a form that is highly readable, very entertaining, and thoroughly informative. The illustrations provide fascinating glimpses into the history of American fashion and clothing-along with their antecedents in Europe-as well as a fine collection of images from the more familiar world of contemporary America.Rubinstein has identified six distinct categories of dress in American society, upon which Dress Codes is based. "Clothing signs" were instituted by those in authority, have one meaning, indicate behavior, and are required attire (police uniforms, or the clothing of ministers and priests); ?clothing symbols," on the other hand, reflect the achievement of cultural values?wealth, beauty, you and health. The wearing of clothing symbols?designer clothing or jewelry?may have several meanings; '`'clothing tie-signs,? which are specific types of clothing that indicate membership in a community outside mainstream culture (Hasidic, Amish, or Hare Krishna attire). They were instituted by those in authority, have one meaning, they indicate expected behavior, and are required attire; clothing tie symbols emanate from hopes, fears, and dreams of particular groups. They include trendy styles such as hip-hop, hippie, and gothic. Another category, contemporary fashion, reflects consumer sentiments and the political and economic forces of the period. Personal dress, refers to the "I" component we bring in when dressing the public self (bowtie, dramatic, or artistic attire). Many of these images have their roots in the collective memory of western society. Written in a lively and entertaining style, Dress Codes will fascinate both general readers and students interested in the history of fashion and costume, fashion design, human development, and gender studies.
Book Synopsis In an Influential Fashion by : Ann T. Kellogg
Download or read book In an Influential Fashion written by Ann T. Kellogg and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Identifies the major designers and retailers who have impacted 19th- and 20th-century American fashion and culture.
Book Synopsis The popular Encyclopedia by : Charles ANNANDALE
Download or read book The popular Encyclopedia written by Charles ANNANDALE and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis St. James Modern Masterpieces by : Udo Kultermann
Download or read book St. James Modern Masterpieces written by Udo Kultermann and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe to Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., and from a photographic portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe to the Porsche 911 automobile, each of the 200 works featured within have achieved the status of "classic" or "masterpiece."" "International in scope, St. James Modern Masterpieces presents an exciting overview of the finest in art, architecture, photography and design created since 1945. Experts in each of the four disciplines, led by distinguished art and architecture scholar Udo Kultermann, discuss the works at length, assessing the importance of the pieces in their artistic and cultural context."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by : Thomas Riggs
Download or read book St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition. It includes 3,036 signed essays (300 of them new), alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance). The entries analyze each topic or person's significance in and relevance to American popular culture; in addition to basic factual information, readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance.
Book Synopsis American Life and Fashion from Jeans to Jeggings by : Karen Frankel
Download or read book American Life and Fashion from Jeans to Jeggings written by Karen Frankel and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeans are a type of trouser developed in 1873 and have been appropriated from work pants, typically worn by men, to the high fashion influence jeans have today. Jeggings are highly influenced by jeans, but what influenced the development from jeans to jeggings? How did the culture, political, and fashion influence decisions the designers made to develop their point of view? In this book, middle school readers will learn the answers to these questions and will be excited to understand how fashion designers use cultural and historical influences in their work. This book examines, decade by decade, how what was happening in the United Sates in culture, politics, and economics influenced fashion, specifically jeans, and vice versa throughout the post-World War II era. This high-interest book includes the history, current status and future of the art form and features rich illustrations, primary sources, and the historical and cultural context.
Book Synopsis As Seen in Vogue by : Daniel Delis Hill
Download or read book As Seen in Vogue written by Daniel Delis Hill and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the history of "Vogue" magazine over the course of the twentieth century, and features more than six hundred advertising images that provide insights into the evolution in American fashion, society, and culture since the magazine's debut in 1893.
Book Synopsis The Boundaries of Her Body by : Debran Rowland
Download or read book The Boundaries of Her Body written by Debran Rowland and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 1901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever your political beliefs, if you are a woman, you must know what the law says about you. The Boundaries of Her Body is the definitive history of the cycle of advances and setbacks that characterizes women's rights in America. Author Debran Rowland covers emotionally charged issues with thoughtful detail, offering insight into the strategies used by politicians and lobbyists to defeat long-standing law. The defeat for women's rights is an emotional and often polarized debate: A debate over what a woman is What a woman ought to be And what a woman should, therefore, be allowed to do Today, the future of women's rights is in jeopardy. "If I had to guess at the future for women, I would say we stand to lose many more significant battles—and the rights that go with them—if we don't begin to abandon the niceties of a comfortable life with educated opinions and start waging the kind of aggressive, no-holds-barred guerrilla war that our opponents have been riding to victory." —from the Epilogue to The Boundaries of Her Body Rowland combines provocative arguments with exhaustive research and affirms that, in spite of advancements, the boundaries of women's bodies will continue to be a source of bitter contention in the law. "Debran Rowland brilliantly argues the continuing inequality of women's rights in America with the most meticulous and comprehensive research in our times." —Betty Friedan author of The Feminine Mystique
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture by : Peter Childs
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture written by Peter Childs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is defined in its broadest sense and areas covered include architecture, consumerism, education, ethnicity and belief, fashion and design, film and cinema, gender and family, intellectual life, literature, media, music, performing arts, politics and society, recreation, sport, video and television, visual arts, and youth culture."--Jacket.
Download or read book Indie Girl written by Kavita Daswani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD INDIE KONKIPUDDI HAS ALWAYS DREAMED OF BECOMING A FASHION REPORTER. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine -- even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son. Indie's neurosurgeon dad can't understand why Indie would want to spend her weekends picking Play-Doh off of someone else's Persian carpets, and pretty soon she starts asking herself the same thing. Then Indie finds out that (1) Celebrity Style is in trouble, and (2) Hollywood's hottest star is having her wedding dress made in a village in India. Indie's sure she's scored the juiciest gossip in town -- the kind of story that will put the magazine back on the map and finally land her the internship! But when things don't pan out exactly as planned, Indie wonders -- will Aaralyn ever see her as anything more than just the hired help?
Book Synopsis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Editorial cartoons through Illustration by : M. Thomas Inge
Download or read book The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Editorial cartoons through Illustration written by M. Thomas Inge and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fifty-eight articles that provide information about various forms, genres, or themes of popular culture, and includes illustrations, photo essays, a chronological survey of each topic's history, and a comprehensive index.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
