Fashion theory: a reader

by Barnard, Malcolm

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Title Statements

Full title :Fashion theory : a reader / edited by Malcolm Barnard.

Summary

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion. From apparently simple and accessible theories concerning what fashion is to seemingly more difficult or challenging theories concerning globalisation and new media, this collection contextualises different theoretical approaches to identify, analyse and explain the remarkable diversity, complexity and beauty of what we understand and experience every day as fashion and clothing. This second edition contains entirely new sections on fashion and sustainability, fashion and globalisation, fashion and digital/social media and fashion and the body/prosthesis. It also contains updated and revised sections on fashion, identity and difference, and on fashion and consumption and fashion as communication. More specifically, the section on identity and difference has been updated to include contemporary theoretical debates surrounding Islam and fashion, and LGBT+ communities and fashion and the section on consumption now includes theories of 'prosumption'. Each section has a specialist and dedicated Editor's Introduction which provides essential conceptual background, theoretical contextualisation and critical summaries of the readings in each section. Bringing together the most influential and ground breaking writers on fashion and exposing the ideas and theories behind what they say, this unique collection of extracts and essays brings to light the presuppositions involved in the things we all think and say about fashion. This second edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader is a timeless and invaluable resource for both the general reader and undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies and fashion studies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 829 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315099620, 1315099624, 9781351583664, 1351583662, 9781351583657, 1351583654, 9781351583640, 1351583646
oclc:on1175918266
LC Classification:GT511
Dewey Decimal:391

Introduction / Malcolm Barnard -- 1. Explaining it away / Elizabeth Wilson -- 2. The empire of fashion : introduction / Gilles Lipovetsky -- 3. Adorned in zeitgeist / Barbara Vinken -- 4. Haute couture and haute culture / Pierre Bourdieu -- 5. Fashion / Edward Sapir -- 6. Art / Nancy J. Troy -- 7. Antifashion : the vicissitudes of negation / Fred Davis -- 8. Fashion / Georg Simmel -- 9. Extract from Fashion and anti fashion / Ted Polhemus and Lynn Proctor -- 10. Fashion photography / Roland Barthes -- 11. Going beyond "the fashion system" : a critique / Paul Jobling -- 12. "Doing fashion photographs" / Erica Lennard -- 13. Introduction : Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith / Tamsin Blanchard -- 14. Consumers' perceptions of "green" : why and how consumers use eco-fashion and green beauty products / Marie-Cécile Cervellon and Lindsey Carey -- 15. Fashion, needs and consumption / Kate Fletcher -- 16. Fashion and sustainability : repairing the clothes we wear / Alison Gwilt -- 17. Social life as a sign system / Umberto Eco -- 18. The analysis of the rhetorical system / Roland Barthes -- 19. Do clothes speak? What makes them fashion? / Fred Davis -- 20. When the meaning is not a message : a c…