Fashion
Subtitle: philosophy for everyone : thinking with style
By: edited by Jessica Wolfendal and Jeanette Kennett
Contributors: Wolfendale, Jessica, 1973-
Series: Philosophy for everyone -- 40
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781405199902
Subjects: Philosophy; Clothing and dress; PHILOSOPHY / General; Fashion
Description: "Most of us realize that fashion is more than just clothes. It's not just about wearing what's in. Fashion influences our judgments of people's taste, politics, sexuality, class, religion, and even their moral character. It can be a medium for technological and social change - changes in fashion may signal economic and political shifts. Yet fashion can also trap us. We can be slaves to fashion if we feel trapped by the roles dictated by the clothes we wear, and we can be slaves to fashion, literally, as in the case of sweatshop workers who make most of the clothes we wear today. This book explores the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers. Topics include: What is fashion? How do we know what is fashionable? Who decides what's cool and what's not? How is it that clothes shape people the way they do? Why does fashion have the power it does? You won't look at your wardrobe in the same light again!"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword (Jennifer Baumgardner) Editors' Introduction (Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett) Part 1: Being Fashionable and Being Cool What Makes Something Fashionable? (Anya Farennikova and Jesse Prinz) Fashion, Illusion, and Alienation (Nick Zangwill) Tryhards, Fashion Victims, and Effortless Cool (Luke Russell) Part 2: Fashion, Style, and Design The Aesthetics of Design (Andy Hamilton) Share the Fantasy: Perfume Advertising, Fashion, and Desire (Cynthia A. Freeland) Computational Couture: From Cyborgs to Supermodels (Ada Brunstein) Section 3: Fashion, Identity and Freedom Wearing Your Values on Your Sleeve (Daniel Yim) Fashion and Sexual Identity, or Why Recognition Matters (Samantha Brennan) Slaves to Fashion? (Lauren Ashwell and Rae Langton) Fashion dolls and feminism: How do you solve a problem like Barbie (Louise Collins) Section 4: Can we be Ethical and Fashionable? Sweatshops and Cynicism (Matthew F. Pierlott) Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping: Individual Responsibility for Consumerism (Lisa Cassidy) A Taste for Fashion (Marguerite La Caze) Notes on Contributors.