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The Future of Fashion is Now
  • Language: en

The Future of Fashion is Now

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A garment that responds to emotions, lace patterns that grow from a plant, textile that decomposes itself and fashion that literally zips people together ... With a critical look at today's fashion industry, more than fifty young designers and a number of illustrious innovators such as Viktor & Rolf and Comme des Garçons give us their vision of the fashion of tomorrow. The development of new technologies and a grasp of the importance of sustainability are what is driving young designers worldwide and causing them to expand the borders of the traditional fashion system. With their innovative solutions and fresh designs, this latest generation of fashion designers has arrived at the interface...

The Handbook of Fashion Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 654

The Handbook of Fashion Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-02
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

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 Australia. The essays are written by international subject specialists who each engage with their section's theme in the light of their own discipline and provide clear case-studies to further knowledge on fashion. This consistency provides clarity and permits comparative analysis. The handbook will be essential reading for students of fashion as well as professionals in the industry.

Fashion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Fashion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-10-22
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's creative reinventions of Chanel's iconic style to the multicultural reference points of Indian designer Manish Arora, from the spectacular fashion shows held in nineteenth century department stores to the mix-and-match styles of Japanese youth, the book examines the ways tha...

Fashioned in the North
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Fashioned in the North

This edited volume showcases new examples - previously untold stories of images, photographers, publications, and institutions - partly unknown outside the Nordic countries. The authors examine the reasons for and implications of this underexposure, taking on a photographic metaphor. While simultaneously challenging previously taken-for-granted ideas of the center and periphery in this field, the book also widens the study of fashion photography. Notably, the hybridity of approaches may enrich future studies of fashion photography. In Fashioned in the North, fashion photography is viewed as a transnational phenomenon and a material object, as well as a medium that is part of a media system and a result of archival systems and history writings. Furthermore, the book displays how studies of fashion photography can be so much more than stories of a few names and iconic images or studies of individual and periodic style. Indeed, the study of fashion photography may be a prism through which we can uncover cultural, social, economic, and ideological aspects of society at present and in the past.

Fashion and Contemporaneity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Fashion and Contemporaneity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book represents the voices of scholars, fashion designers, bloggers and artists, who speak to the pervasive nature of fashion in matters of politics, history, economics, sociology, religion, culture, art and identity. Dialogically open, the volume offers a broad apprehension of visual matter in the global contemporary context with fashion at its core, exploring its metamorphosing, media-oriented and ‘disordered’ modes of being in the early twenty-first century. The book’s contributors consider topics of universal import stemming from the realm of fashion, its dissemination and impact, from institutional, corporate, collective and individual perspectives, reflecting on the morphing, interchanging and revolutionary quality of the visual realm as the basis for continued research in fashion studies. Contributors are Shari Tamar Akal, Jess Berry, Naomi Braithwaite, Claire Eldred, Sarah Heaton, Hilde Heim, Demetra Kolakis, Sarah Mole, Lynn S. Neal, Laura Petican, Cecilia Winterhalter, Manrutt Wongkaew.

Global Fashion, Local Tradition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Global Fashion, Local Tradition

The future of fashion; in essence, this is the theme of the collection of photographs and essays in Global Fashion Local Tradition edited by Jan Brand and Jos Teunissen. Fashion has become global. Fashion weeks are not only held in Paris and Milan, but

African Dress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

African Dress

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-11
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Through a broad range of case studies based on pioneering research, African Dress explores key themes of fashion, the body, performance and identity. It is the first scholarly yet accessible overview of African fashion and dress practices.

Social Justice Pedagogies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Social Justice Pedagogies

Social Justice Pedagogies provides a diverse and wide perspective into making education more robust and useful in light of global injustices and new challenges posed by new media and communication practices, media manipulation, right-wing populism, climate crisis, and intersectional discriminations. Meant to inspire readers to see learning and teaching from a wider perspective of justice, inclusion, equity, and creativity, it argues that relational and mindful approaches to teaching and learning in specific contexts, settings, and place-based experiences are essential in how we determine the value of education. The book draws on contributions from scholars and experts who incorporate social ...

Global Design History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Global Design History

  • Categories: Art

This book gathers together a number of leading design historians whose research points the way forward, aiming to address and promote changes to design history.

Everything But Clothes
  • Language: en

Everything But Clothes

'Everything But Clothes' features all the big (Dutch) fashion photographers since the nineties. The book focuses on the importance of (fashion) magazines such as Avenue, Re magazine, Glamcult, BLVD and Fantastic Man and how their innovative concepts and experimental forms have established an international reputation. The book places extra attention on the rise of digital magazines, fashion blogs and vlogs and their influence on fashion photography. The specific themes and trends of each decade are discussed as well. In the eighties and nineties identity and eroticism were the keywords whereas from the year 2000 drama and personal stories - artificial versus natural - become a more important theme. AUTHOR: Jose Teunissen teaches fashion design at the ArtEZ school in Arnhem. She is also the conservator Fashion and Costumes of the Central Museum in Utrecht. She regularly publishes books and articles on fashion. Jhim Lamoree is a publicist, curator and art historian. SELLING POINTS: * A new approach to the subject, where the influence of magazines and blogs about fashion is clearly highlighted; an ideal book for fashion students 120 colour and 60 b/w photographs