The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashio…
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural…
Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural …
"Clothing may not make the man (or woman), but it helps. How clothing as a vestige and artifact and as transmitter of identity moves from one use to another, from one fantasy to another fad, from one literary source to another visual one : these are the concerns of the essays in…
"Ulrich Lehmann investigates the meaning of fashion for economic and social life from the 1830s to the present day. He brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing …
"Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new insights into the dynamic relationships between fashion, bodies, and matieral culture. In a series of original case studies, both historical and contemporary, the …
Fashion and materiality: cultural practices in global contexts
by Craik, Jennifer, Kaiser, Susan B., Köhle-Hezinger, Christel, Devoucoux, Daniel, Zander-Seidel, Jutta, Purdy, Daniel L., Shamukhitdinova, Lola, Hansen, Karen Tranberg, Moon, Christina H., Belkaïd, Leyla, Busch, Otto von, Hauser, Andrea, Gaugele, Elke
Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new insights into the dynamic relationships between fashion, bodies, and matieral culture. In a series of original case studies, both historical and contemporary, the c…