TY - BOOK AU - Barnard,Malcolm TI - Fashion Theory: A Reader T2 - Routledge Student Readers Series SN - 9781351583664 AV - GT525 .F374 2020 U1 - 391 PY - 2020/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Fashion-Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories -- Introduction -- 1 Explaining it Away -- 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction -- 3 Adorned in Zeitgeist -- 4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture -- PART TWO What fashion is and is not -- Introduction -- 5 Fashion -- 6 Art -- 7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation -- 8 Fashion -- 9 Extract from Fashion and Anti Fashion -- PART THREE Fashion and (the) image -- Introduction -- 10 Fashion Photography -- 11 Going Beyond 'The Fashion System': A Critique -- 12 'Doing Fashion Photographs' -- 13 Introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith -- PART FOUR Sustainable fashion -- Introduction -- 14 Consumers' Perceptions of 'Green': Why and How Consumers Use Eco-Fashion and Green Beauty Products -- 15 Fashion, Needs and Consumption -- 16 Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes we Wear -- PART FIVE Fashion as communication -- Introduction -- 17 Social Life as a Sign System -- 18 The Analysis of the Rhetorical System -- 19 Do Clothes Speak? What Makes them Fashion? -- 20 When the Meaning is not a Message: A Critique of the Consumption as Communication Thesis -- 21 "Fashion as Communication Revisited" -- PART SIX Fashion: identity and difference -- Introduction -- 22 Express Yourself: The Politics of Dressing Up -- 23 Objectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel -- 24 'Power Dressing' and the Construction of the Career Woman -- 25 From Gay to Queer - Or, Wasn't Fashion Always Already a Very Queer Thing? -- 26 Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes -- 27 Popular Fashion and Working-Class Affluence -- 28 Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection -- 29 Great Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Success; 30 Taste and Distinction: The Politics of Style -- 31 Islamic Fashions Cape -- 32 You Should Understand, It's a Freedom Thing: The Stoned Cherrie-Steve Biko T-Shirt -- PART SEVEN Fashion, clothes and the body -- Introduction -- 33 Addressing the Body -- 34 Deviant Bodies and Suitable Clothes -- 35 "My Leg is a Giant Stiletto Heel": Fashioning the Prosthetised Body -- 36 Fashion, Clothes and the Body -- PART EIGHT Fashion: production, consumption, prosumption -- Introduction -- 37 The Crossroad Between Production and Consumption -- 38 Consuming or Living with Things? Wearing it out -- 39 Reconceptualising Prosumption Beyond the 'Cultural Turn': Passive Fashion Prosumption in Korea and China -- 40 Attentiveness, Materials, and their use: The Stories of Never Washed, Perfect Piece and My Community -- 41 The Little Black Dress is the Solution, but what is the Problem? -- PART NINE Modern fashion -- Introduction -- 42 Adorned in Dreams: Introduction -- 43 Modernism and Fashion: A Social Psychological Interpretation -- 44 Public Roles/Personality in Public -- 45 Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street -- PART TEN Postmodern fashion -- Introduction -- 46 The Ideological Genesis of Needs/Fetishism and Ideology -- 47 Fashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code -- 48 A Tale of Inscription/Fashion Statements -- 49 Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-Assembled Clothes -- PART ELEVEN Digital/new media and fashion -- Introduction -- 50 Narcissism, Femininity and Alienation -- 51 Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-Portraits -- 52 Bringing Sexy Back: Reclaiming the Body Aesthetic Via Self-Shooting -- 53 Mediatization and Digital Media in the Field of Fashion -- PART TWELVE Global and transnational fashion -- Introduction -- 54 Globalization and Colonialism; 55 Extract from Global Fashion Local Tradition -- 56 Transnational Commodity Flows and the Global Phenomenon of the Brand -- 57 The Art of Dressing: Body, Gender, and Discourse on Fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s -- 58 Hong Kong Fashion Designers as Cultural Intermediaries: Out of Global Garment Production -- Index N2 - This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6262779 ER -