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Fashion theory : a reader

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge student readersPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: xvi, 607 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780415413404
  • 0415413400
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Contents:
One. Fashion and fashion theories -- Explaining it away / Elizabeth Wilson -- The empire of fashion: introduction / Gilles Lipovetsky -- Two. Fashion and history/fashion in history -- Fashion / Edward Sapir -- Fashion has its laws / Agnes Brooks Young -- Renaissance clothing and the materials of memory / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass -- A century of fashion / Gilles Lipovetsky -- Three. What fashion is and is not -- Antifashion: the vicissitudes of negation / Fred Davis -- Is fashion a true art form? / Zandra Rhodes and Alice Rawsthorn -- Four. What fashion and clothing do -- The language of personal adornment / Mary Ellen Roach and Joanne Bubolz Eicher -- Why do people wear clothes? / Elizabeth Rouse -- Protection / John Flügel -- Five. Fashion as communication -- Social file as a sign system / Umberto Eco -- Do clothes speak?: What makes them fashion? / Fred Davis -- When the meaning is not a message: a critique of the consumption as communication thesis / Colin Campbell -- Fashion statements: communication and culture / Malcolm Barnard -- Six. Fashion: identity and difference -- Sex and gender -- Express yourself: the politics of dressing up / Tim Edwards -- Objectifying gender: the stiletto heel / Lee Wright -- 'Power dressing' and the construction of the career woman / Joanne Entwistle -- Social class -- Popular fashion and working-class affluence / Angela Partington -- Fashion: from class differentiation to collective selection / Herbert Blumer -- Ethnicity and race -- Great aspirations: hip hop and fashion dress for excess and success / Emil Wilbekin -- Oppositional dress / Elizabeth Wilson -- Culture and subculture -- Style / Dick Hebdige -- Seven. Fashion clothes and the body -- Addressing the body / Joanne Entwistle -- Anchoring the (postmodern) self?: Body modification, fashion and identity / Paul Sweetman -- Lumbar thought / Umberto Eco -- The comfort of identity / Ruth Holliday -- Eight. Production and consumption -- Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture / Thorstein Veblen -- The fetishism of the commodity and its secret / Karl Marx -- Fashion: unpacking a cultural production / Peter Braham -- Consuming or living with things?: Wearing it out / Tim Dant -- Nine. Modern fashion -- Adorned in dreams: introduction / Elizabeth Wilson -- Modernism and fashion: a social psychological interpretation / Kurt W. Back -- Public roles: personality in public / Richard Sennett -- Benjamin and the revolution of fashion in modernity / Ulrich Lehmann -- Ten. Post-modern fashion -- The ideological genesis of needs: Fetishism and ideology ; Fashion, or the enchanting spectacle of the code / Jean Baudrillard -- A tale of inscription: fashion statements / Kim Sawchuk -- Deconstruction fashion: the making of unfinished, decomposing and re-assembled clothes / Alison Gill -- Eleven. Fashion and (the) image -- Fashion photography / Roland Barthes -- Fashion photography: the double-page spread: Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin & Deborah Turbeville / Rosetta Brooks -- 'Doing fashion photographs' / Erica Lennard -- Fashion & graphics: introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith / Tamsin Blanchard -- Twelve. Fashion, fetish and the erotic -- Fetishism / Sigmund Freud -- The special historic and psychological role of tight-lacing / David Kunzle -- Fashion and fetishism / Valerie Steele -- Female fetishism / Lorraine Gamman and Merja Makinen -- 'Where the garment gapes' / Roland Barthes.
Summary: This collection of essays surveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the variety, complexity and beauty of fashion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

One. Fashion and fashion theories -- Explaining it away / Elizabeth Wilson -- The empire of fashion: introduction / Gilles Lipovetsky -- Two. Fashion and history/fashion in history -- Fashion / Edward Sapir -- Fashion has its laws / Agnes Brooks Young -- Renaissance clothing and the materials of memory / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass -- A century of fashion / Gilles Lipovetsky -- Three. What fashion is and is not -- Antifashion: the vicissitudes of negation / Fred Davis -- Is fashion a true art form? / Zandra Rhodes and Alice Rawsthorn -- Four. What fashion and clothing do -- The language of personal adornment / Mary Ellen Roach and Joanne Bubolz Eicher -- Why do people wear clothes? / Elizabeth Rouse -- Protection / John Flügel -- Five. Fashion as communication -- Social file as a sign system / Umberto Eco -- Do clothes speak?: What makes them fashion? / Fred Davis -- When the meaning is not a message: a critique of the consumption as communication thesis / Colin Campbell -- Fashion statements: communication and culture / Malcolm Barnard -- Six. Fashion: identity and difference -- Sex and gender -- Express yourself: the politics of dressing up / Tim Edwards -- Objectifying gender: the stiletto heel / Lee Wright -- 'Power dressing' and the construction of the career woman / Joanne Entwistle -- Social class -- Popular fashion and working-class affluence / Angela Partington -- Fashion: from class differentiation to collective selection / Herbert Blumer -- Ethnicity and race -- Great aspirations: hip hop and fashion dress for excess and success / Emil Wilbekin -- Oppositional dress / Elizabeth Wilson -- Culture and subculture -- Style / Dick Hebdige -- Seven. Fashion clothes and the body -- Addressing the body / Joanne Entwistle -- Anchoring the (postmodern) self?: Body modification, fashion and identity / Paul Sweetman -- Lumbar thought / Umberto Eco -- The comfort of identity / Ruth Holliday -- Eight. Production and consumption -- Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture / Thorstein Veblen -- The fetishism of the commodity and its secret / Karl Marx -- Fashion: unpacking a cultural production / Peter Braham -- Consuming or living with things?: Wearing it out / Tim Dant -- Nine. Modern fashion -- Adorned in dreams: introduction / Elizabeth Wilson -- Modernism and fashion: a social psychological interpretation / Kurt W. Back -- Public roles: personality in public / Richard Sennett -- Benjamin and the revolution of fashion in modernity / Ulrich Lehmann -- Ten. Post-modern fashion -- The ideological genesis of needs: Fetishism and ideology ; Fashion, or the enchanting spectacle of the code / Jean Baudrillard -- A tale of inscription: fashion statements / Kim Sawchuk -- Deconstruction fashion: the making of unfinished, decomposing and re-assembled clothes / Alison Gill -- Eleven. Fashion and (the) image -- Fashion photography / Roland Barthes -- Fashion photography: the double-page spread: Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin & Deborah Turbeville / Rosetta Brooks -- 'Doing fashion photographs' / Erica Lennard -- Fashion & graphics: introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith / Tamsin Blanchard -- Twelve. Fashion, fetish and the erotic -- Fetishism / Sigmund Freud -- The special historic and psychological role of tight-lacing / David Kunzle -- Fashion and fetishism / Valerie Steele -- Female fetishism / Lorraine Gamman and Merja Makinen -- 'Where the garment gapes' / Roland Barthes.

This collection of essays surveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the variety, complexity and beauty of fashion.

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