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Fashion statements : on style, appearance, and reality
Title:
Fashion statements : on style, appearance, and reality
Author:
Scapp, Ron, 1955-
ISBN:
9780230105423
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description:
vi, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
You Cannes come in here dressed like that: a true story in two shoes / Erin Norris -- The head monkey at Paris: Henry David Thoreau on fashion / David Farrell Krell -- Fashion statements: communication and culture / Malcolm Barnard -- Tech savvy: technology as the new fashion statement / Ava Chin -- Fleshing it out: the tyranny of the A-line skirt / bell hooks -- Osh Kosh b'gosh / Mary O'Donoghue -- The fungi dress: a living garment: interview with Donna Franklin (July 2005) / Shannon Bell -- Victimless leather: a prototype of stitch-less jacket grown in a technoscientific "body" / Shannon Bell -- Is clothing art? / Jeff Weinstein -- Fashion advice from the Anti-Christ / Lydia Hartunian -- Puro high life / Maythee Rojas -- Irony killed by the ironic T-shirt and the true religion of the American jean / Anne O'Neil -- Jackie O., or: how I learned to stop worrying and love my Chanel / Ellen Fridland, Andrew Porter -- The hat's the thing / Johanna Wagner -- 'Pod peeps: why the iPod and other gadgets are fashion staples In the 'hood / Lynne d Johnson -- Dressed to kill: or, women's right to bare arms / Kelly Oliver -- The naked truth of antifashion philosophy / Nickolas Pappas -- Vivienne Westwood: keeping critique alive / Sinéad Murphy -- Fashion at a glance / Edward S. Casey -- Plato's Greater Hippias / Albert A. Anderson, translator.
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