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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Craik (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Berg Publishers Dimensions: Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 1.005kg ISBN: 9781845204518ISBN 10: 1845204514 Pages: 396 Publication Date: 01 August 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Why Study Fashion? 1. The Fashion Impulse 2. The Eurocentric Fashion System 3. Fashion Cycles, Symbols and Flows 4. Fashion, Body Techniques and Identity 5. Fashion, Aesthetics and Art 6. Fashion as a Business and Cultural Industry 7. Popular Culture and Fashion 8. The Politics of Fashion Questions for Essays and Class Discussion Annotated Guide for Further Reading Glossary Fashion Milestones Bibliography IndexReviewsCraik's refreshing approach and lucid analysis of the complexities of dress and fashion theory provides essential reading. The author tackles many of those all too familiar dilemmas and questions about fashion's cultural significance with bravado. A panoramic and ambitious study of dress, in all its wider meanings and manifestations. Claire Wilcox, Senior Curator, Department of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion, V&A Author InformationJennifer Craik is Research Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Design and Creative Practice at the University of Canberra and Adjunct Professor in Fashion at the School of Fashion and Textiles at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne. Her seminal publications include The Face of Fashion: cultural studies in fashion and Uniforms Exposed: from conformity to transgression. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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