ISBN:
9780857851949
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (654 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Handbook of Fashion Studies
DDC:
391
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies. The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashion and Materiality; Fashion, Agency and Policy; Science, Technology and New fashion; Fashion and Time and, Sustainable Fashion in a Globalised world. Each section consists of approximately four essays authored by established researchers in the field from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Aus
Description / Table of Contents:
The Handbook of Fashion Studies; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Fashion/Dress and Time; Introduction; 1 Fashion and Dress History: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches; 2 Dress, Time, and Space: Expanding the Field through Exhibition Making; 3 New Fashion Times: Fashion and Digital Media; 4 Fashion, the Body, and Age; Section II: Fashion, Identity, and Difference; Introduction; 5 Fashion and Class Evaluations; 6 Gender and Eighteenth-Century Fashion; 7 Lesbian Style; SECTION III: Spaces of Fashion; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Border Crossings: Fashion in Film/Fashion and Film9 The Hidden Spaces of Fashion Production; 10 Fashion: More Than Cloth and Form; 11 Markets as Fashion Spaces; SECTION IV: Fashion and Materiality; Introduction; 12 Investigative Methodologies: Understanding the Fabric of Fashion; 13 Looking at Fashion: The Material Object as Subject; 14 Anthropology and Materiality; 15 Immateriality; SECTION V: Fashion, Agency, and Policy; Introduction; 16 Fashion, Tourism, and Global Culture; 17 Artisan Enterprise, Cultural Property, and the Global Market; 18 Mapping Latin American Fashion
Description / Table of Contents:
19 Secondhand Clothing and Africa: Global Fashion Influences, Local Dress Agency, and Policy IssuesSECTION VI: Science, Technology, and New Fashion; Introduction; 20 Technology and Future Fashion: Body Technology for the Twenty-First Century; 21 XS Labs: Electronic Textiles and Reactive Garments as Sociocultural Interventions; 22 Advanced Textiles for Fashion in Science, Literature, and Film; 23 Fashion and Science Intersections: Collaborations across Disciplines; SECTION VII: Sustainable Fashion in a Globalized World; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
24 Corporate Responsibility in the Global Apparel Industry:Toward an Integrated Human Rights-Based Approach25 Fast Fashion and Sustainability; 26 Design for Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles; 27 Fashion and the Design of Prosperity: A Discussion of Alternative Business Models; Resources Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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