num_pages: 250
description: Designed to be as internationally relevant as the fashion it discusses, Chic Thrills extends fashion theory beyond the interpretation of style, and shows how it relates to the economic realities and motivations of those who create the clothing we buy and wear.Among the issues the contributors address Feminism and the politics of fashion * The relationship of non-European cultures to Western fashion * Fashion and the negotiation of identity * Recent trends in fashion photography and the media representation of fashion * Industrial conditions, production constraints and the relationship of garment workers to the clothes they make * Playing with a different fashion and the lesbian couple * Fascism and Paris haute couture under Nazi occupation * Fashion and the postmodern body.
language: English
title: Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader
titlecomplete: Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader
genres: Fashion
ratings_count: 13
publisher: University of California Press