{"product_id":"fashion-theory-9781138296947","title":"Fashion Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thoroughly revised and updated edition of \u003ci\u003eFashion Theory: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 iden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 1: Fashion and Fashion Theories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Elizabeth Wilson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplaining it Away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Gilles Lipovetsky \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Empire of Fashion: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Barbara Vinken\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fashion \u003ci\u003eZeitgeist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Pierre Bourdieu \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaute Couture and Haute Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 2: What Fashion Is and Is Not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Edward Sapir\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Nancy Troy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion as Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Fred Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Georg Simmel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Philosophy of Fashion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Ted Polhemus and Lynn Procter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion and Antifashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 3: Fashion and (the) Image\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Roland Barthes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fashion System: Fashion Photography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Paul Jobling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing Beyond \u003ci\u003eThe Fashion System\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Erica Lennard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoing Fashion Photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Tamsin Blanchard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion and Graphics: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 4: Sustainable Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Marie-Cécile Cervellon and Lindsey Carey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsumers' Perceptions of 'Green'' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. Kate Fletcher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion, Needs and Consumption\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. Alison Gwilt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes We Wear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 5: \u003cb\u003eFashion as Communication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. Umberto Eco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Life as a Sign System \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. Roland Barthes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Analysis of the Rhetorical System \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. Fred Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo Clothes Speak? What Makes them Fashion?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20. Colin Campbell \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Meaning is not a Message: A Critique of the Consumption as Communication Thesis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21. Malcolm Barnard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion as Communication Revisited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 6: Fashion: Identity and Difference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22. Tim Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpress Yourself: The Politics of Dressing Up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23. Lee Wright \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObjectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24. Joanne Entwistle \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePower Dressing and The Construction of the Career Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLGBT+\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25. Annamari Vänskä\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Gay to Queer - Or, Wasn't Fashion Always Already A Very Queer Thing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26. Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Class\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27. Angela Partington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopular Fashion and Working-Class Affluence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28. Herbert Blumer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthnicity and Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29. Emil Wilbekin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Success\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30. Reina Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuslim Fashion: Taste and Distinction; The Politics of Style \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31. Emma Tarlo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisibly Muslim: Islamic Fashion Scape \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32. Carol Tulloch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou Should Understand, It's a Freedom Thing: The Stoned Cherrie - Steve Biko T-Shirt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 7: Fashion, Clothes and The Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33. Joanne Entwistle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddressing the Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34. Ingun Grimstad Klepp \u0026amp; Mari Rysst \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeviant Bodies and Suitable Clothes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35. Laini Burton \u0026amp; Jana Melkumova-Reynolds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel': Fashioning the Prosthetised Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e36. Malcolm Barnard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion, Clothes and The Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 8: Fashion: \u003cb\u003eProduction, Consumption, Prosumption\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37. Marco Pedroni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Crossroad between Production and Consumption\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38. Tim Dant \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsuming or Living with Things? Wearing it Out\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e39. Tommy Tse and Ling Tung Tsang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReconceptualising Prosumption\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40. Kate Fletcher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttentiveness, Materials, and Their Use\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e41. Daniel Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Little Black Dress is the Solution, but what is the Problem?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 9: Modern Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42. Elizabeth Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdorned in Dreams: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e43. Kurt Back\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernism and Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44. Richard Sennett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic Roles\/Personality in Public\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e45. Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 10: Post-modern Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46. Jean Baudrillard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ideological Genesis of Needs\/Fetishism and Ideology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e47. Jean Baudrillard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e48. Kim Sawchuk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Tale of Inscription: Fashion Statements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49. Alison Gill \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeconstruction Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 11: Digital\/New Media and Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50. Sandra Lee Bartky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarcissism, Femininity and Alienation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e51. Agnès Rocamora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonal Fashion Blogs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52. Katrin Tiidenberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing Sexy Back: Reclaiming the Body Aesthetic via Self-Shooting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e53. Agnès Rocamora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMediatization and Digital Media in the Field of Fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 12: Global and Transnational Fashion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e54. Malcolm Barnard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobalization and Colonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e55. Jan Brand and Jose Teunissen \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eGlobal Fashion\/Local Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e56. Ian Skoggard,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransnational Commodity Flows and the Global Phenomenon of the Brand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e57. Olga Gurova \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBody, gender and discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e58. Lise Skov \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHong Kong Fashion Designers as Cultural Intermediaries\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019476500823,"sku":"9781138296947","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138296947.jpg?v=1750780385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fashion-theory-9781138296947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}