Title:
Fashion cultures revisited : theories, explorations and analysis
Author:
Bruzzi, Stella, 1962-
ISBN:
9780415680059
9780415680066
Edition:
Second edition.
Physical Description:
xx, 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: The changed fashion landscape of the new millennium / Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson -- Part I. Shopping, spaces and globalisation : A new world order? Fashion and its capitals in the twenty-first century / David Gilbert -- Branding Brazilian fashion: global visibility and intercultural perspectives / Silvano Mendes and Nick Rees-Roberts -- India and fashion's new geography / Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber -- A new fashion capital: Shanghai / Armida de la Garza and Peng Ding -- 'Sydney style': camping it up in the emerald city / Sally Gray -- Part II. Changing imagery, changing media : Yesterday's emblems and tomorrow's commodities: the return of the repressed in fashion imagery today / Caroline Evans -- The digital fashion film / Gary Needham -- Personal fashion blogs: screens and mirrors in digital self-portraits / Agnès Rocamora -- Styling the street - fashion performance, stardom and neo-dandyism in street style blogs / Monica Titton-- Exhibition-making: a conversation / Christopher Breward and Judith Clark -- Part III. Altered landscapes, new modes of production : Fashion photography: communication, criticism and curation from 1975 / Alistair O'Neill -- Escaping to reality: fashion photography in the 1990s / Elliott Smedley -- Fashioning indie: the consecration of a subculture and the emergence of 'stylish' femininity / Rachel Lifter -- 'Capitalism's favourite child': the production of fashion / Adam Briggs -- Tailoring and tweed: mapping the spaces of 'slow fashion' / Louise Crewe -- Part IV. Icons and their legacies : The 'fashion arts': Jean Michel Frank, Elsa Schiaparelli and the interwar aesthetic project / Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello -- The pink suit / Stella Bruzzi -- Fab lesbianism and family values: costuming of lesbian identities in The L word and The kids are alright / Fiona Cox -- Fashion as mythology: considering the legacy of Alexander McQueen / Nathalie Khan-- Part V. Contestaton, compliance, feminisms : Fashion, feminism and the neo-feminist ideal: from Coco Chanel to Jennifer Lopez / Hilary Radner and Natalie Smith -- New clothes, new faces, new bodies: cosmetic surgery and fashion / Meredith Jones -- Female slenderness and the case of perverse compliant deception, or why size matters... / Lorraine Gamman -- Hijab stories: choice, politics, fashion / Reina Lewis -- Fashion, fears and ageing: contradictions and complexity across the media / Pamela Church Gibson -- Part VI. Making masculinities : Heroes and villains: when men wear makeup / Janice Miller -- The Italian job: football, fashion and that sarong / Stella Bruzzi -- Vampire dandies: fashionable masculine identities and style in popular culture / Vicki Karaminas -- 'I'm saving the world, I need a decent shirt': masculinity and sexuality in the new Doctor Who / Claire Jenkins -- Suiting up and stripping off: the male makeover / Lauren Jade Thompson.
Abstract:
"Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing different aspects of fashion culture:Shopping, spaces and globalisationChanging imagery, changing mediaAltered landscapes, new modes of productionIcons and their legaciesContestation, compliance, feminismsMaking masculinitiesFashion Cultures Revisited explores every facet of contemporary fashion culture and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and shopping.Consequently it is an ideal companion to those interested in fashion studies, cultural studies, art, film, fashion history, sociology and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.