Dress Becomes Body Becomes Dress
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Dress Becomes Body Becomes Dress
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Author : Alexander O'Kane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Dress Becomes Body Becomes Dress written by Alexander O'Kane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fashion categories.
When Clothes Become Fashion
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Author : Ingrid Loschek
language : en
Publisher: Berg
Release Date : 2009-08-01
When Clothes Become Fashion written by Ingrid Loschek and has been published by Berg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Design categories.
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 the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the world of fashion - its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions.
The Conceptualization Of Dress In Prophetic Metaphors
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Author : S. J. Parrott
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023
The Conceptualization Of Dress In Prophetic Metaphors written by S. J. Parrott and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Bibles categories.
Jerusalem/Zion's metaphoric investiture/divestiture of dress is a central force to create new perspectives on reality and of a nation's selfhood in contexts of suffering and destruction, making dress in prophetic metaphors a crucial means of communication and perception management.
Fashion And Age
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Author : Julia Twigg
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-26
Fashion And Age written by Julia Twigg and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-26 with Design categories.
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 potential of the 'grey market'. Fashion and Age is the first study to systematically explore the links between clothing and age, drawing on fashion theory and cultural gerontology to examine the changing ways in which age is imagined, experienced and understood in modern culture through the medium of dress. Clothes lie between the body and its social expression, and the book explores the significance of embodiment in dress and in the cultural constitution of age. Drawing on the views of older women, journalists and fashion editors, and clothing designers and retailers, it aims to widen the agenda of fashion studies to encompass the everyday dress of the majority, shifting the debate about age away from its current preoccupation with dependency, towards a fuller account of the lived experience of age. Fashion and Age will be of great interest to students of fashion, material culture, sociology, sociology of age, history of dress and to clothing designers.
Fashion Dress And Identity In South Asian Diaspora Narratives
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Author : Noemí Pereira-Ares
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Fashion Dress And Identity In South Asian Diaspora Narratives written by Noemí Pereira-Ares and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the eighteenth century to the new millennium, from early travel account by South Asian writers to contemporary British-Asian fictions. Besides sartorial readings of other key authors and texts, the book provides an in-depth exploration of Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man (1972), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003).This work examines what an analysis of dress contributes to the interpretation of the featured texts, their contexts and identity politics, but it also considers what literature has added to past and present discussions on the South Asian dressed body in Br itain. Endowed with an interdisciplinary emphasis, the book is of interest to students and academics in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, socio-cultural studies and fashion theory.
Not Just Any Dress
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Author : Sandra Weber
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Not Just Any Dress written by Sandra Weber and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? This compelling collection of short stories, essays, and poems features dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts from women's lives in Western society. Often personal in nature, these «dress stories» point unfailingly to matters of social and cultural import. Some of the dresses described inhabit the popular imagination: the little girl dress, the communion dress, the school uniform, the prom dress, the wedding dress, the little black dress, and the burial dress. Beyond the semiotic, tactile, and visual aspects of the dresses themselves, the narratives delve into what dresses reveal about fundamental aspects of human experience: identity, embodiment, relationship, and mortality. Bought or made, then worn, forgotten, remembered, re-constructed, and re-interpreted, each dress offers a new glimpse into how we construct meaning in our daily lives, and how dresses serve to reinforce or resist social structures and cultural expectations.
Rei Kawakubo
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Author : Rex Butler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-15
Rei Kawakubo written by Rex Butler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Design categories.
The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in contemporary culture. The 14 essays in this collection, written by eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the relationship of Kawakubo's work to art, philosophy and architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself.
African Dress
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Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-04-11
African Dress written by Karen Tranberg Hansen and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Design categories.
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.
Dress In Mediterranean Antiquity
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Author : Alicia J. Batten
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Dress In Mediterranean Antiquity written by Alicia J. Batten and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Religion categories.
Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing and defending identity. The volume begins by reviewing how scholars in the fields of classics, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology examine dress. The second section then looks at materials, including depictions of clothing in sculpture and in Egyptian mummy portraits. The third (and largest) part of the book then examines dress in specific contexts, beginning with Greece and Rome and going on to Jewish and Christian dress, with a specific focus on the intersection between dress, clothing and religion. By combining essays from over twenty scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a unique overview of different approaches to and contexts of dress in one volume, leading to a greater understanding of dress both within ancient societies and in the contemporary world.
Samuel Richardson Dress And Discourse
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Author : K. Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-05-21
Samuel Richardson Dress And Discourse written by K. Oliver and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-21 with Fiction categories.
This book concerns itself with dress in the novels of Samuel Richardson, and how attire confirms, contributes to, or challenges the characters' fashioning of self and the self as others (characters or readers) perceive it.