Fashion Theory

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781135190002

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"Books that explain and analyse the nature, production and consumption of fashion are very fashionable at present. Fashion is explained in terms of the body, or fetish, or gender or culture. Slightly less fashionable, it seems, are introductory books on the theories of fashion. All explanations and analyses of fashion presupposed at least one theory (of gender, or class, for example) and all apply some theory to the material they cover, but few take the time to explain those theories. This introduction to fashion theory surveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines (including sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, fashion history, gender studies and cultural history) have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of fashion. Themes covered include individual, social and gender identity, clothes and the body, the erotic, consumption and communication. This introduction looks at some of the most influential and important theories on fashion bringing to light the presuppositions involved in the things we think and say about fashion."--

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351583657

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Fashion Theory by Malcolm Barnard Pdf

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion. From apparently simple and accessible theories concerning what fashion is to seemingly more difficult or challenging theories concerning globalisation and new media, this collection contextualises different theoretical approaches to identify, analyse and explain the remarkable diversity, complexity and beauty of what we understand and experience every day as fashion and clothing. This second edition contains entirely new sections on fashion and sustainability, fashion and globalisation, fashion and digital/social media and fashion and the body/prosthesis. It also contains updated and revised sections on fashion, identity and difference, and on fashion and consumption and fashion as communication. More specifically, the section on identity and difference has been updated to include contemporary theoretical debates surrounding Islam and fashion, and LGBT+ communities and fashion and the section on consumption now includes theories of 'prosumption'. Each section has a specialist and dedicated Editor's Introduction which provides essential conceptual background, theoretical contextualisation and critical summaries of the readings in each section. Bringing together the most influential and ground breaking writers on fashion and exposing the ideas and theories behind what they say, this unique collection of extracts and essays brings to light the presuppositions involved in the things we all think and say about fashion. This second edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader is a timeless and invaluable resource for both the general reader and undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies and fashion studies.

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 085785254X

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Fashion Theory by Valerie Steele Pdf

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research. Fashion Theory is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services: Abstracts in Anthropology; AOI Anthropological Index Online; ARTbibliographies Modern; British Humanities Index; DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index; IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences; IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences; ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Scopus; Sociological Abstracts

Author : Andrew Reilly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350091931

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Introducing Fashion Theory by Andrew Reilly Pdf

How does a style become a fashion? Why do trends spread and decline? Introducing Fashion Theory explores these questions and more to help you quickly get up-to-speed with fashion theories, from scarcity to conformity, through clear practical examples and fascinating case studies. This second edition, re-titled from Key Concepts for the Fashion Industry, includes expanded coverage on cultural appropriation, corporate greenwashing, and the criminal world of counterfeit goods. - Illustrated examples, from Apple's post-postmodernist iWatch to Savage X Fenty's body image message on diversity - Covers core fashion theories, from trickle-down to trickle-up, to political dress and conspicuous consumption - Filled with learning activities, key terms, chapter summaries, and discussion questions to inspire and inform

Author : Tsan-Ming Choi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781138000292

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Fast Fashion Systems by Tsan-Ming Choi Pdf

Fast fashion is an industrial trend that refers to the concept of shortening lead time (production, distribution) and offering new products to the market as fast as possible. Despite an abundance of research results, there is no comprehensive reference source that covers the state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical modeling and empirical research on fast fashion systems. This edited volume consists of three sections - review and exploratory studies, analytical models, and empirical research – made up of many interesting contributions in the respective domain. The result is a well-balanced handbook which includes both theoretical results (from various perspectives) and empirical findings. This volume will be of interest not only to those involved in the fashion industry, but also to academics and practitioners in the wider fields of business, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering and supply chain management.

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge Student Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 0415413397

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Fashion Theory by Malcolm Barnard Pdf

This collection of essays surveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the variety, complexity and beauty of fashion.

Author : Guy Sircello
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400872381

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New Theory of Beauty by Guy Sircello Pdf

Ever since the eighteenth century, when Kant opened the floodgates of subjectivism in aesthetics, common men and philosophers alike have despaired of finding a basis for judgments about beauty. This book provides a comprehensive theory that encompasses beauty in art and nature, as well as intellectual, utilitarian, and moral beauty. The author argues that the beauty of objects can be reduced to the beauty of properties of those objects, which in turn can be understood in terms of "properties of qualitative degree." The theory, developed first with respect to color, is then extended to include all sensory and non-sensory qualities. The author shows how the theory explicates and resolves disagreements about what is beautiful and discusses its relevance to the traditional notions of harmony and sublimity. His is an objectivist theory of beauty, and it enables him, in conclusion, to demonstrate why we enjoy perceiving beauty. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Olga Mitterfellner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429837166

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Fashion Marketing and Communication by Olga Mitterfellner Pdf

Some of the usual obstacles to modern teachings of marketing are ethnocentricity, the limitation of creative thought by conformity to existing theories, lack of questioning of ethics, and a disconnection from historic events or sociological discourse. This book, in contrast, draws together interdisciplinary approaches from marketing, branding, promotion and critical media studies as tools for understanding the way in which fashion works today, and re-evaluates what makes certain fashion marketing tactics fashionable. Offering a combination of theory and practice, Fashion Marketing and Communication is full of international case studies, practice-based examples and interviews with scholars and practitioners in the fashion and communications industry. Covering subjects including the history of consumerism, fashion marketing, the creative direction of the fashion brand and the use of bloggers and celebrities as marketing tools, this book delineates the opportunities and challenges facing the future of fashion media in the twenty-first century. Examining the last 100 years of marketing and communications, current theory and practice, as well as questions on the ethics of the fashion industry, this broad-ranging and critical text is perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate students of fashion marketing, branding and communication.

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 1847889867

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Fashion Theory Volume 15 Issue 3 by Valerie Steele Pdf

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of "fashion" as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research. Fashion Theory is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services: Abstracts in Anthropology; AOI Anthropological Index Online; ARTbibliographies Modern; British Humanities Index; Current contacts/Arts & Humanities; DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index; Current contacts/Arts & Humanities; IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences; IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences; ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Scopus; Sociological Abstracts

Author : Helen L. Brockman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Costume design
ISBN : 0471105864

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The Theory of Fashion Design by Helen L. Brockman Pdf

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 1845206045

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Fashion Theory: Volume 11, Issue 1 by Valerie Steele Pdf

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of "fashion" as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research.

Author : Regina A. Root
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 1847882013

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Fashion Theory Volume 12 Issue 4 by Regina A. Root Pdf

Ecofashion brings together new perspectives for the field of fashion studies, asking a compelling set of research questions related to consumption practices and sustainability at a time of environmental crisis. The volume begins with a discussion of keywords used by theorists and the industry to address ecologically oriented fashion practices, including the rationale behind the usage of "ecofashion." Articles address natural looks that emerged in the 1960s, the rise of "green as the new black" at the beginning of the twenty-first century, recycling and the appeal of "slow fashion," and the science that informs the making of environmentally conscious garments. Other articles show how these concepts are linked to mass-market trends underway in the globalized political economy, offering especially important connections for scholars who seek to bridge fashion theory to issues of concern in environmental and global studies. Indexed by the IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); the DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index); ARTbibliographies Modern; Abstracts in Anthropology; the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Sociological abstracts; ISI Web of Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Index and ISI Current Contents Connect/Arts & Humanities (THOMSON); K.G. Saur Verlag's IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature and Social Sciences) and K.G. Verlag's IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on Humanities and Social Sciences).

Author : Elke Gaugele,Monica Titton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fashion
ISBN : 3956794656

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Fashion and Postcolonial Critique by Elke Gaugele,Monica Titton Pdf

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 in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization and globalization. Stemming from a range of different disciplines, such as art history, textile studies, anthropology, history, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, fashion media, and fashion theory, the contributions in this book reflect the multidisciplinary and diverse nature of postcolonial fashion research today. Contributors Christine Checinska, Christine Delhaye, Burcu Dogramaci, Sonja Eismann, Elke Gaugele, Gabriele Genge, Birgit Haehnel, Sabrina Henry, Helen Jennings, Alexandra Karentzos, Hana Knízová, Christian Kravagna, Gabriele Mentges, Birgit Mersmann, Heval Okcuoglu, Walé Oyéjidé Esq., Leslie W. Rabine, Ruby Sircar, Angela Stercken, Sølve Sundsbø, Monica Titton Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 22

Author : Amy de la Haye,Becky E. Conekin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 1845202759

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Fashion Theory, Volume 10, Issues 1 & 2 by Amy de la Haye,Becky E. Conekin Pdf

Fashion Theory provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. It provides a vital contribution to cultural studies, art, history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology. It is multi-disciplinary, features international coverage and is heavily illustrated.

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1859732453

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Fashion Theory: Volume 2, Issue 4 by Valerie Steele Pdf

Special issue on methodology Christopher Breward: Cultures, Identities, Histories Aileen Ribeiro: Re-Fashioning Art: Some Visual Approaches to the Study of History of Dress Valerie Steele: A Museum of Fashion is More Than a Clothes-Bag Lou Taylor: Doing the Laundry?: A Reassessment of Object-based Dress History Carol Tulloch: "Out of Many, One People": The Relativity of Dress, Race and Ethnicity to Jamaica, 1880-1907 John Styles: Dress in History: Reflections on a Contested Terrain