"Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of…
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Davis explores the influence of fashion on the arts in early twentieth-century Paris, in particular on music and the importance of music and fashion on the rise of transatlantic modernism. She looks at the couturiers Paul Poiret, Germaine Bongard and Coco Chanel, at the fashion …
"The focus of "Fusion Fashion" is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice, which has to be differentiated from the common knowledge of/on Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception. The book offers historic as well as systematic perspectives. On the one …
"From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and televisio…
'Fashion and Postcolonial Critique' outlines a critical global fashion theory from a postcolonial perspective. It investigates contemporary articulations of postcolonial fashion critique, and analyzes fashion as a cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved i…
'Fashion and Postcolonial Critique' outlines a critical global fashion theory from a postcolonial perspective. It investigates contemporary articulations of postcolonial fashion critique, and analyzes fashion as a cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved i…
The clothed body in the ancient world
by Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd, Harlow, Mary, Cleland, Liza
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"The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The volume argues for the importance of studying clothing as more than merely a subset of material culture, demonstrating the imp…
In most countries of the world people today are dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives an analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides exp…
From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats…
Kelly Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets …
"Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequen…
"Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered topics ranging from wrestling to photography. The semiotic power of fashion and clothing were of perennial interest to Barthes and The…
