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Book SynopsisFrom artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry.
Fashioning Professionals addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and in the digital age, as new ways of working and doing business have given rise to new professional identities. Bringing together critical reflections from international researchers, the book spans fashion, design, art, architecture, and advertising. It examines both traditional and emergent roles in creative industries, from advertising executives and surrealist artists to mannequin designers, pop stylists, bloggers, makers and design curators. The book reveals how professional identities are continually in a state of
fashioning, through style, taste, gender and cultural representation, highlighting moments of friction and flux in the creative labour of the global economy. Inter
Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for scholars who are interested in fashion, representation, and identity ... Provides insight into the fragile, and fluctuating nature of in the creative industries and as such, will be of interest to readers from a variety of fields. * The Journal of Dress History *
Pulling together far reaching ideas with the concept of “fashioning,” the authors open the analysis beyond the usual suspects of dress, the fashion system, or self-expression ... the essays collected here will please and challenge readers from a broad swathe of scholarly fields. -- from the Foreword by Elizabeth Wissinger, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York, USA
Exploring design, fashion, architecture, and art, this series of essays offers new and provoking insights into shifting conceptions of professional identities in the creative industries. -- Cheryl Buckley, University of Brighton, UK
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Fashioning Professionals: History, Theory and Method
Leah Armstrong and Felice McDowell I. Inventing 1. Media in the Museum: Fashioning the Design Curator at the Boilerhouse Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
Liz Farrelly 2. Fashioning Pop: Stylists, Fashion Work and Popular Music Imagery,
Rachel Lifter 3. The Labor of Fashion Blogging,
Agnès Rocamora II. Negotiating 4. Fashioning Professional Identity in the British Advertising Industry: The Women’s Advertising Club of London, 1923-1939: 95-114,
Philippa Haughton 5. Satirical Representations of the Bauhaus Architect in
Simplicissimus Magazine: 115-133,
Isabel Rousset 6. The Self as an Art-Work: Performative Self-Representation in the Life and Work of Leonor Fini: 134-155,
Andrea Kollnitz III. Making 7. Designer Unknown: Documenting the Mannequin Maker,
June Rowe 8. Fashioning the Contemporary Artist: The Spatial Biography of Sue Tompkins,
Caroline Stevenson 9. The Maker 2.0: A Craft-Based Approach to Understanding a New Creative Identity,
Catharine Rossi Index
