Malcolm Barnard Primary Author mixed material bibliography routledge 2015 monographic id Indonesia

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244 pages Books that explain and analyse the nature, production and consumption of fashion are very fashionable at present. Fashion is explained in terms of the body, or fetish, or gender or culture. Slightly less fashionable, it seems, are introductory books on the theories of fashion. All explanations and analyses of fashion presupposed at least one theory (of gender, or class, for example) and all apply some theory to the material they cover, but few take the time to explain those theories. Thisintroduction to fashiontheorysurveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines (including sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, fashion history, gender studies and cultural history) have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of fashion. Themes covered include individual, social and gender identity, clothes and the body, the erotic, consumption and communication. This introduction looks at some of the most influential and important theories on fashion bringing to light the presuppositions involved in the things we think and say about fashion. 391 BAR f9780415496216 Lasalle College Jakarta Library Catalogue 391 BAR f FD10306 Fashion Design 391 BAR f 1316 2015-07-06 11:06:07 2017-07-13 09:50:25 machine generated