The Language Of Fashion

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472534323

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The Language of Fashion by Roland Barthes Pdf

Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered topics ranging from wrestling to photography. The semiotic power of fashion and clothing were of perennial interest to Barthes and The Language of Fashion - now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series - collects some of his most important writings on these topics. Barthes' essays here range from the history of clothing to the cultural importance of Coco Chanel, from Hippy style in Morocco to the figure of the dandy, from colour in fashion to the power of jewellery. Barthes' acute analysis and constant questioning make this book an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the cultural power of fashion.

Author : Laura Volpintesta
Publisher : Rockport Pub
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781592538218

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The Language of Fashion Design by Laura Volpintesta Pdf

Describes the basic principles of fashion design by looking at the work of hundreds of designers and defining twenty-six important terms in the fashion world, including line, symmetry, texture, pattern, and motif.

Author : Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781447493617

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The Language of Fashion Dictionary and Digest of Fabric, Sewing and Dress by Mary Brooks Picken Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-07-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 0520071778

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The Fashion System by Roland Barthes Pdf

On semiotics, fashion and philosophy

Author : Alicia Kennedy,Emily Banis Stoehrer,Jay Calderin
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781610582018

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Fashion Design, Referenced by Alicia Kennedy,Emily Banis Stoehrer,Jay Calderin Pdf

Fashion Design, Referenced is a comprehensive guide through the art and industry of fashion design, richly illustrated with over 1,000 photographs and drawings. Within the framework of four central categories, Fashion Design, Referenced examines the many interwoven elements that form the tapestry of fashion. “Fundamentals” provides an overview of the essential structure of the fashion profession (its organization, specializations, and centers) and looks at shifts in style over time and in ever-faster cycles going forward. “Principles” introduces the steps in creating a collection, from design to production, and explores directions suggested by sustainability and technology. “Dissemination” charts the many avenues by which fashion reaches its audience, whether on the catwalk or in the store, in print or online, in the museum or on the street. “Practice” gathers and appraises the work of the most influential and innovative fashion designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From its first question—What is fashion design?—to its last—What does the future hold?—Fashion Design, Referenced chronicles the scope of ideas, inspirations, and expressions that define fashion culture. Visit the Fashion Design, Referenced Facebook page and become a fan at http://www.facebook.com/FashionDesignReferenced!

Author : Godson Ukaegbu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 0995470642

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Fashion A Second Language by Godson Ukaegbu Pdf

Fashion A Second Language is the essential reference for fashion professionals, students and enthusiasts that brings together all the inter-connected parts in the value chain of fashion.

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136412974

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Fashion as Communication by Malcolm Barnard Pdf

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from Barthes and Baudrillard to Marxist, psychoanalytic and feminist theory, Barnard addresses the ambivalent status of fashion in contemporary culture.

Author : Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015031742946

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The Fashion Dictionary by Mary Brooks Picken Pdf

A dictionary to more than 10,000 words in the language of fashion, wearing apparel and accessories illustrated with 800 drawings and over 200 photographs.

Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781409322412

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Fashion by DK Pdf

3,000 years of fashion history in one stylish visual guide Fashion is the definitive guide to the evolution of costume and style. Tracing 3,000 years from the early draped fabrics of ancient times to today's catwalk sensations, this is your own personal fashion show through history. Breathtaking in its scope, Fashion is packed with over 1,500 costumes from around the globe and lavishly illustrated with a mix of original fashion plates, archive images and commissioned photography. Plus features on famous trend-setters, fashion icons and designers from Jackie Onassis to Alexander McQueen bring the world of fashion to life. Fashion is guaranteed to add style to your bookshelf; with its luxurious textured fabric jacket and spine, it's the season's must-have for anyone with a passion for fashion.

Author : Susan B. Kaiser,Denise N. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350104693

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Fashion and Cultural Studies by Susan B. Kaiser,Denise N. Green Pdf

Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text considers fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Kaiser and Green use a wide range of cross-cultural case studies to explore how race, ethnicity, class, gender and other identities intersect and are produced through embodied fashion. Drawing on intersectionality in feminist theory and cultural studies, Fashion and Cultural Studies is essential reading for students and scholars. This revised edition includes updated case studies and two new chapters. The first new chapter explores religion, spirituality, and faith in relation to style, fashion, and dress. The second offers a critique of “beauty” and considers dressed embodiment inclusive of diverse sizes, shapes and dis/abilities. Throughout the text, Kaiser and Green use a range of examples to interrogate the complex entanglements of production, regulation, distribution, consumption, and subject formation within and through fashion.

Author : Yuniya Kawamura
Publisher : Berg
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847886071

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Fashion-ology by Yuniya Kawamura Pdf

This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of the genius designer and explains, provocatively, that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief. There is an institutional structure, ignored by many fashion theorists, that has shaped and produced the fashion phenomenon. Kawamura further shows how the structural nature of the fashion system works to legitimize designers creativity and can make them successful. Newer fashion cities, such as Milan and New York, are the product of the fashion system that originated in Paris. Without that systemic structure, fashion culture would not exist. Fashion-ology provides a big picture approach that focuses on the social process behind fashion and its perpetuation.

Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054800

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Aso Ebi by Okechukwu Charles Nwafor Pdf

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062417442

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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Pdf

“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.

Author : Rose Sinclair
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857095619

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Textiles and Fashion by Rose Sinclair Pdf

This major textbook is designed for students studying textiles and fashion at higher and undergraduate level, as well as those needing a comprehensive and authoritative overview of textile materials and processes. The first part of the book reviews the main types of natural and synthetic fibres and their properties. Part two provides a systematic review of the key processes involved first in converting fibres into yarns and then transforming yarns into fabrics. Part three discusses the range of range of finishing techniques for fabrics. The final part of the book looks specifically at the transformation of fabric into apparel, from design and manufacture to marketing. With contributions from leading experts in their fields, this major book provides the definitive one-volume guide to textile manufacture. Provides comprehensive coverage of the types and properties of textile fibres to yarn and fabric manufacture, fabric finishing, apparel production and fashion Focused on the needs of college and undergraduate students studying textiles or fashion courses Each chapter ends with a summary to emphasise key points, a comprehensive self-review section, and project ideas are also provided

Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Design
ISBN : IND:30000001730104

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Revolution in Fashion by Jean Starobinski Pdf