The fashion reader /
edited by Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun.
- English edition.
- xxiii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-448) and index.
Part I. A brief history of modern fashion : From Baroque elegance to the French Revolution: 1770-1790 / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell ; From Neoclassicism to the Industrial Revolution: 1790-1860 / Susan North ; The Victorian and Edwardian eras: 1860-1910 / Cynthia Cooper; The modern era: 1910-1960 / Tiffany Webber-Hanchett ; The postmodern age: 1960-2006 -- Part II. Fashion theory : The power of fashion / Kurt Land and Gladys Engel Lang ; Written clothing / Roland Barthes ; The fashion system / Grant McCracken ; The dressed body / Joanne Entwistle ; Re-orienting fashion theory / Sandra Niessen ; Fashion at the edge / Caroline Evans -- Part III. Fashion and identity : Is it a girl or a boy? Gender identity and children's clothing / Colleen R. Callahan and Jo B. Paoletti ; Sentimental culture and the problem of fashion / Karen Halttunen ; Men and women: dressing the part / Jo B. Paoletti and Claudia Brush Kidwell ; The zoot suit and style warfare / Stuart Cosgrove ; Invisible men? / Shaun Cole ; Subculture: the unnatural break / Dick Hebdige -- Part IV. The geography of dress : The highlander myth : Hugh Trevor-Roper ; Ghulam Sakina: a case study in transnational design production / Claire Dwyer and Philip Crang ; World cities of fashion / David Gilbert ; Auckland as a globalizing fashion city / Alison Goodrum, Wendy Larner and Maureen Molloy ; Suitably attired: well-dressed men have worn the same thing for century new: a history and appreciation of the suit / William Hamilton -- Part V. Politics of fashion : Feminism and fashion / Elizabeth Wilson ; Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world / Peter Jackson ; Finding the moral fiber: why reform is urgently needed for a fair cotton trade / Oxfam Briefing Paper ; Not only Nike's doing it: "sweating" and the contemporary labor market / Richard McIntyre and Yngve Ramstad -- Part IV: Fashion and theory : A second look at the big squees / Jennifer Ruark ; Nap time: historicizing the Afro / Robin D.G. Kelley ; "Material girl": Madonna as postmodern heroine / Susan Bordo ; Extreme surgery / Graham Lawton -- Part VII. Fashion and art : Art and fashion / Michael Boodro ; Fashion rendering / Richard Martin ; On the marked change in fashion photography / Olivier Zahm ; Viktor & Rolf / Andrew Bolton -- Part VIII. Fashion in the media : Fashion on the page / Christopher Breward ; Supermodels and super bodies / Jennifer Craik ; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Kathleen Craughwell-Varda ; Dressing the part: Sternberg, Dietrich and costume / Sybil DelGaudio ; Sex and the city in the British fashion press / Anna König ; Punk and neo-tribal body art / Daniel Wojcik ; Selling culture: Bloomingdale's, Diana Vreeland, and the new aristocracy of taste in Reagan's America / Debora Silverman -- Part IX. From haute couture to the street : When Worth was king / Anne Hollander ; The dressmaking world / Thčrése Bonney and Louise Bonney ; Torontonian taste in couture / Alexandra Plamer ; Trickle down, bubble up / Ted Polhemus ; Secondhand dresses and the role of the ragmarket / Angela McRobbie ; Punks and pirates: the costiff collection of Vivienne Westwood / Sonnet Stanfill ; Japanese street fashion: the urge to be seen and to be heard / Yuniya Kawamura -- Part X. The fashion business : Inside design: a look at the method behind the madness / Katy Chapman ; Business sense: it takes a lot more than individual flair to stay at the top / John Andrews ; The diary of a dress: Alexander McQueen shares the saga of how one of his inspirations -- a Peter Arnold orchid photograph -- evolved from simple sketch to production nightmare to a sunning gown fit for supermodel Naomi Campbell / Lisa Armstrong ; The Islamic factor / Nicholas Coleridge ; Dorothy Shaver: promoter of "The American Look" / Tiffany Webber-Hanchett ; McFashion is entertaining / Michelle Lee ; Born in the USA: the growing premium-denim market goes global / Julia Fein Azoulay ; Four models fashion relationships / Simona Segre Reinach ; Fashion in India / Vandana Bhandari ; "Two for a penny" / Pietra Rivoli -- Part XI. Future of fashion : What happened to fashion? / Teri Agins ; Implications for the appearance-alteration industries / Ted Polhemus ; Born to buy / Juliet B. Schor ; Dreamweavers: weaving the future / Cathy Newman ; Made in China / Arthur C. Mead.
"The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources--books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews and exhibition catalogues. Each section is specially introduced and concludes with guides to further reading."--Publisher description.