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  • Fashioning London

    Clothing and the Modern Metropolis

    by Christopher Breward ...
    Series series Foundations of Fashion Studies
    Over the past three centuries, London has established itself as one of the world's most inventive fashion capitals. Drawing on a range of sources, including paintings, street photography, maps, tourist guides, literature, and stage and press representations, Fashioning London paints a vivid and definitive portrait of London's iconoclastic style.Explore how particular styles of dress became ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Suit

    Form, Function and Style

    by Professor Christopher Breward ...
    For over 400 years the tailored suit has dominated wardrobes the world over. Its simple forms, inspired by royal, military, religious and professional clothing, have provided a functional and often elegant uniform for modern life. But whether bespoke or tailor-made, on the street or in the office, during times of celebration or of crisis, we typically take the suit for granted, ignoring its ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The birth of modern London

    by Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The period 1660–1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This work for the first time examines in detail the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2

    From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Fashion
    Volume II surveys the history of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Covering the period beginning with mass industry and ending with calls for sustainability, this volume challenges the meaning of modernity and modernism from a global perspective and reflects on important scholarship that has changed our understanding of the relationship between fashion and colonialism. ... Read more

    $154.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Fashion
    Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on ... Read more

    $168.09 USD

  • Fashionable Masculinities

    Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals

    by Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, Pamela Church Gibson, Justine Taylor, Nigel Lezama, Michael McMillan, Vlad Strukov0, Jay McCauley Bowstead1, Jonathan Allan2, Andrew Reilly3, Barry Judd4, Nikita Vanderbyl5, Shaun Cole6, Ben Barry7, Olga Vainshtein8, Victor Vey9, Anne Peirson-Smith0, Jennifer Craik1 ...
    Fashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory and precarious moment when masculinities are defined by protests and pandemics whilst being problematized across class, ethnicity, race, gender and sexuality. Whilst a majority of men might still define ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • British Design

    Tradition and Modernity after 1948

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Fiona Fisher, Ghislaine Wood ...
    British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Styling Shanghai

    Edited by Christopher Breward, Dr Juliette MacDonald ...
    Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ideal homes, 1918–39

    Domestic design and suburban Modernism

    by Deborah Sugg Ryan, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were forged through the architecture, design and decoration of the home, in choices such as ebony elephants ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Fashion Studies

    Research Methods, Sites, and Practices

    Edited by Heike Jenss ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking volume offers fascinating insights into the complex dynamics of research and fashion.Featuring ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • European fashion

    The creation of a global industry

    by Christopher Breward ...
    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The period since 1945 has been a transformative era for the fashion industry. Over the course of seventy years, the fashion world has moved from celebrating the craftsmanship of haute couture to revelling in ever-changing fast-fashion. This volume examines the transition from the old system to the new in a series of case studies grouped around three major themes. Part I focuses on Paris as a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Fashion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rebecca Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD