Fashion tales  : feeding the imaginary.
Mora, Emanuela.
[S.l.] : PETER LANG,
2017.
Today, we are witnessing a turn in the fashion imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. The book explores a multitude of fashion issues that feed the contemporary fashion imaginary.
Cover; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; New frontiers of the fashion imaginary (Emanuela Mora / Marco Pedroni); Part 1: Fashion and the media; Fashion fandom and TV quality drama: From poaching to everyday identity performance through Pinterest (Romana Andò); Dressed in politics: The use of costumes in Game of Thrones (Luisa Valeriani); Second life community and global citizenship: A fashion tale of a virtual empire (Phylis Johnson)
Is the golden era of fashion blogs over? An analysis of the Italian and Spanish fields of fashion blogging (Marco Pedroni / Teresa Sádaba / Patricia SanMiguel)Lady Dior: Brand values in fashion films (Marina Ramos-Serrano / Gema Macías-Muñoz); Kaleidoscopes of cloth and canvas: A phenomenological approach to fashion on the cinematic red carpet (Eugenie Maria Theuer); Behind-the-scenes: Framing fashion and the limits of the documentary mode (Nick Rees-Roberts); Part 2: Fashion in the making
The re-invention of Made in Italy goods: Italian know-how in product innovation in the work of three Italian women Crafters (Cecilia Winterhalter)Emerging Chinese fashion brands: The silent revolution? (Monia Massarini / Rubens Pauluzzo); Shifting perspectives on sustainable supply chain management in the fashion business (Marco Ricchetti / Karan Khurana); Sustainable consciousness and consumer identity: Legal tools and rules (Valentina Jacometti); Part 3: Politics of Fashion; On fashion and illusions: Designing interpassive Indianness for India's rich (Tereza Kuldova)
Human rights in fashion creations, production and branding: A genuine policy or a marketing strategy? (Lígia Carvalho Abreu)Protecting the dignity of women in fashion advertisement: The new legal initiatives in a comparative law perspective (Barbara Pozzo); Performing authenticity through fashion: Sartorial contestations of Hindu-Guyanese Indianness and the creation of the Indian 'other' (Sinah Theres Kloss); Brazilian fashion: Dichotomies and perspectives of resistance (Cristiana Katagiri / Virginia Abreu Borges); Part 4: Fashion languages
Fashion, journalism and linguistic design: A case study of the wedding dresses (Maria Catricalà)Is Vogue like Vogue all around the world? A comparison of Facebook posts of Vogue France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and United Kingdom (Manuela Caniato); Television clothing commercials for tweens in transition: A comparative analysis in Italy and Spain (Gevisa La Rocca / Maddalena Fedele); Tattooing, body and beauty (Alessandra Castellani); Abstracts and Keywords; Biographies
Today, we are witnessing a turn in the fashion imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. The book explores a multitude of fashion issues that feed the contemporary fashion imaginary.
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