A cultural history of fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries : from catwalk to sidewalk /
"This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in 20th century fashion history. Accessibly written and well illustrated, the book outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case stu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The interplay of commerce and culture before the First World War: The rise of haute couture
- The rise of consumerism
- The interplay of commerce and culture
- The art of fashion advertising
- The democratization of fashion: machine age aesthetics
- Flooding the American market: reproductions and fakes
- Coco Chanel
- Framing fashion: the artists who made clothes
- Modernist abstract design
- Delaunay: Cubism
- Stepanova and Popova: Russian constructivism
- Schiaparelli: surrealism
- Balenciaga: organic modernism
- Viktor & Rolf: neo-Dadaism
- Martin Margiela: postmodern deconstruction
- Hussein Chalayan: techno-design
- Fashioning the American body
- The home of ready-to-wear: Seventh Avenue, New York
- Menswear: shirts
- A fashion icon: Levi's jeans
- Decades of dominance: American dress in Hollywood film
- American conservatism: the designer/stylist: Lauren, Klein and Karan
- Global conglomerates
- Postmodernism and fashion: A cultural contextualization
- Postmodernism in fashion and art
- Popular culture and pastiche: Quant, Courrèges, Cardin, Saint Laurent and Ashley
- The T-shirt: a blank canvas
- Disposable fashion
- Youth codes: the hippie movement
- Anti-fashion
- The deviance of fashion
- Punk fashion: Rhodes and Westwood
- Fashion as ideology: Benetton, Moschino and Gaultier
- Street style
- Japanese conceptual fashion
- Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo
- The aesthetics of poverty
- A cultural heritage
- Textile design
- Conceptualization
- Harajuku street fashion
- Global practices: 1980s onwards
- The death of haute couture?
- LVMH: the super syndicate
- Branding: the designer as product
- Perfume: a licence to make money
- Fashion and philanthropy
- Fashion as installation
- Post-2000: global recession and ideological conflict
- A shift in the balance of power
- The twenty-first-century image of modern womanhood
- Beauty and the beast: fashion noir
- The rise of menswear
- The changing fashion market in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Marketing and promotion
- E-marketing and designer web sites
- Reinventing the shopping experience
- New retailing networks
- Luxury heritage branding
- Internationalizing fashion
- The New Media: blogs and social networking
- Eco-fashion, sustainability and ethics
- Green as the new black
- More than just a marketing strategy?
- The environmental footprint
- Eco-designers
- Ethical concerns
- Looking ahead: the emergence of Asian and Indian fashion design industries
- China: building an infrastructure
- India: the old and new.
