Fashion Culture And Identity

Author : Fred Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226167954

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Fashion, Culture, and Identity by Fred Davis Pdf

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.

Author : Diana Crane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226924830

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Fashion and Its Social Agendas by Diana Crane Pdf

It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed. Crane compares nineteenth-century societies—France and the United States—where social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode societies, clothes inhibit as well as facilitate communication between highly fragmented social groups. Crane extends her comparison by showing how nineteenth-century French designers created fashions that suited lifestyles of Paris elites but that were also widely adopted outside France. By contrast, today's designers operate in a global marketplace, shaped by television, film, and popular music. No longer confined to elites, trendsetters are drawn from many social groups, and most trends have short trajectories. To assess the impact of fashion on women, Crane uses voices of college-aged and middle-aged women who took part in focus groups. These discussions yield fascinating information about women's perceptions of female identity and sexuality in the fashion industry. An absorbing work, Fashion and Its Social Agendas stands out as a critical study of gender, fashion, and consumer culture. "Why do people dress the way they do? How does clothing contribute to a person's identity as a man or woman, as a white-collar professional or blue-collar worker, as a preppie, yuppie, or nerd? How is it that dress no longer denotes social class so much as lifestyle? . . . Intelligent and informative, [this] book proposes thoughtful answers to some of these questions."-Library Journal

Author : Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781474249119

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Fashioning Identity by Maria Mackinney-Valentin Pdf

We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays, and creating tension between personal statements and social performances. Fashioning Identity explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption,by examining a diverse series of case studies - from ninety-year old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases, the role of time, gender, age memory, novelty, copying, the body and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene. Offering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis' seminal concept of 'identity ambivalence' in Fashion, Culture and Identity (1992), Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of 'status ambivalence', in which fashioning one's own identity has become increasingly complicated.

Author : Kyunghee Pyun,Aida Yuen Wong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319971995

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Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia by Kyunghee Pyun,Aida Yuen Wong Pdf

This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body. Dress reform movements around the turn of the twentieth century in the region have received little critical attention as a multicultural discourse of labor, body, gender identity, colonialism, and government authority. With contributions by leading experts of costume/textile history of China, Korea, and Japan, this book presents up-to-date scholarship using diverse methodologies in costume history, history of consumption, and international trade. Thematically organized into sections exploring the garments and uniforms, accessories, fabrics, and fashion styles of Asia, this edited volume offers case studies for students and scholars in an ever-expanding field of material culture including, but not limited to, economic history, visual culture, art history, history of journalism, and popular culture. Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia stimulates further research on the impact of modernity and imperialism in neglected areas such as military uniform, school uniform, women’s accessories, hairstyles, and textile trade.

Author : Jacque Lynn Foltyn,Laura Petican
Publisher : At the Interface / Probing the
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004446583

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In Fashion by Jacque Lynn Foltyn,Laura Petican Pdf

"For the contributors to In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity being "in fashion" is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft, manufacturing, packaging, marketing and archives. The book's international cast of authors engage "in" fashion from various disciplinary, professional, and creative perspectives; i.e., anthropology, archaeology, art history, cultural studies, design, environmental studies, fashion studies, history, international relations, literature, marketing, philosophy, sociology, technology, and theatre. In Fashion has five sections: Fashioning Representations: Texts, Images, and Performances; Fashionable: Shopping, Luxury, and Vintage; Fashion's Materials: Craft, Industry, and Innovation; Museum Worthy: Fashion and the Archive; Fashioning Cultural Identities: Case Studies"--

Author : Eugenia Paulicelli,Hazel Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781135253561

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The Fabric of Cultures by Eugenia Paulicelli,Hazel Clark Pdf

The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective and within a global framework.

Author : F. Godart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137000743

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Unveiling Fashion by F. Godart Pdf

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural fact. Drawing on six principles from the industry, Godart guides the reader through the economic, social and political arena of the world's most glamorous industry.

Author : Rosy Aindow
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0754661458

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Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914 by Rosy Aindow Pdf

Rosy Aindow's interdisciplinary study maps the literary response to the emergence of a modern fashion industry in late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain. The study argues dress is given a distinctive voice in novels of the period; works that embrace older sartorial tropes, but which simultaneously shape and formulate their own reflecting contemporary social concerns.

Author : Alphonso McClendon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857851284

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Fashion and Jazz by Alphonso McClendon Pdf

Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion and style aesthetic. Fashion and Jazz is the first study to identify the behaviours, signs and meanings that defined this newly evolving subculture. Drawing on fashion studies and cultural theory, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and political entanglements of jazz and dress, with individual chapters exploring key themes such as race, class and gender. Including a wide variety of case studies, ranging from Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald to Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker, it presents a critical and cultural analysis of jazz performers as modern icons of fashion and popular style. Addressing a number of previously underexplored areas of jazz culture, such as modern dandyism and the link between drug use and glamorous dress, Fashion and Jazz provides a fascinating history of fashion's dialogue with African-American art and style. It is essential reading for students of fashion, cultural studies, African-American studies and history.

Author : Christian Allaire
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781773214924

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The Power of Style by Christian Allaire Pdf

Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay, make up, hijabs, and hair, probing the connections between fashion and history, culture, politics, and social justice. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004446595

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In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity by Anonim Pdf

For the international cast of contributors to this volume being “in fashion” is about self-presentation; defining how fashion is presented in the visual, written, and performing arts; and about design, craft manufacturing, packaging, marketing, and archives.

Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0199645183

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Dressing Up by Ulinka Rublack Pdf

Uses an astonishing array of sources to imagine the Renaissance afresh by considering people´s appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what images they created, and how all this made people feel about themselves.

Author : Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins,Joanne Bubolz Eicher,Kim K. P. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000048015139

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Dress and Identity by Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins,Joanne Bubolz Eicher,Kim K. P. Johnson Pdf

This valuable collection of readings discusses the relationship between dress and identity. Selections from many disciplines present a thorough examination of subjects, such as textiles and clothing, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and womens studies. Some writings are classic statements, others are contributions from recently published books and journals. Each of the books five parts features an introduction that puts entries into context.

Author : Amy H. Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:963497695

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The Fabric of Cultures by Amy H. Winter Pdf

Author : Amy Harriet Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 0979951100

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The Fabric of Cultures by Amy Harriet Winter Pdf