Overview

The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy.Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal specifically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face. It also considers how models glamorize consumption through everyday activities, and neoliberal labour forms via reality TV. With commentaries from industry professionals who experienced the cultural juggernaut of the supermodels, the final essay situates their impact within the rise of brand culture and the globalization of fashion markets since 1990.Accessible and highly engaging, Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and related disciplines.

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Author:   Dr Joanne Entwistle ,  Elizabeth Wissinger
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.432kg
ISBN:  

9781847881540

ISBN 10:   1847881548
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Joanne Entwistle, London College of Fashion and Elizabeth Wissinger, BMCC, City University of New York, USA Part One - Histories of Fashion Modelling From Artist's Model to the 'Natural Girl': Containing Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Modelling Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto, Canada 'Giving Colored Sisters a Superficial Equality': Re-Modelling African American Womanhood in Early Postwar America Laila Haidarali, University of Essex, UK Fashion Modelling in Australia Margaret Maynard, University of Queensland, Australia Performing Dreams: A History of Fashion Models as Cultural Emblems Patrícia Soley-Beltran, University of Edinburgh, UK Part Two - Behind the Image: Contemporary Fashion Modelling Work and Practices Made in Japan: Fashion Modelling in Tokyo Ashley Elizabeth Mears, New York University, USA The Figure of the Model and Reality Television Stephanie Neda-Orafai, New York University, USA How Models Are Made: Round Table Discussion with Model Agents Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger in discussion with Cory Bautista, Director, New York Model Management, Dorian, Ford Model Agency and Melissa Richardson, Director of Take2 Model Management Index

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Joanne Entwistle is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, UK. Elizabeth Wissinger is Associate Professor at the BMCC campus of the City University of New York, USA.

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