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  • Fashion and Jazz

    Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation

    by Alphonso McClendon ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion and style aesthetic. Fashion and Jazz is the first study to identify the behaviours, signs and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Wardrobe Crisis

    How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

    by Clare Press ...
    Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street—or you made them yourself. Today, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker, and milliner are long gone, replaced a globalized fashion industry worth $1.5 trillion a year.In Wardrobe Crisis, fashion journalist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

    by George Grella ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • When Clothes Become Fashion

    Design and Innovation Systems

    by Ingrid Loschek ...
    When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • How to Draw Like a Fashion Illustrator

    Skills and techniques to develop your visual style

    by Robyn Neild ...
    This step-by-step guide provides an insight into how to illustrate fashion designs and get your ideas down on paper. It is of interest to any designer, from the complete beginner or someone hoping to improve their skills and establish a career as a fashion illustrator, to professionals wanting to strengthen their visual impact. Using inspiration from past artists and illustrators, readers will ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Fashion

    Past, Present and Future

    by Jennifer Farley Gordon, Colleen Hill ...
    Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century.Employing an expanded definition of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Fashion Writing and Criticism

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Peter McNeil, Dr Sanda Miller ...
    Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves.Integrating history and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Chinese Fashion Industry

    An Ethnographic Approach

    by Jianhua Zhao ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about? ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Fashion on Television

    Identity and Celebrity Culture

    by Helen Warner ...
    Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Handbook of Fashion Studies

    Edited by Professor Sandy Black, Professor Amy de la Haye, Dr Joanne Entwistle, Dr Agnès Rocamora, Professor Helen Thomas, Dr Regina A. Root ...
    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 ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Vampire Culture

    by Maria Mellins ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Unique and exciting, this ethnographic study is the first to address a little-known subculture, which holds a fascination for many. The first decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever increasing fixation with vampires, from the recent spate of phenomenally successful books, films, and television programmes, to the return of vampire-like style on the catwalk. Amidst this hype, there ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Fashion and Age

    Dress, the Body and Later Life

    by Julia Twigg ...
    Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are signs of change, as older women aspire to younger, more mainstream, styles, and retailers realize the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD