The anatomy of fashion
Subtitle: dressing the body from the renaissance to today
By: Susan J. Vincent.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781845207649; 9781845207632
Subjects: Fashion design -- History; Body image -- History; Body, Human -- Social aspects
Description: Taking different body parts in turn, this book invites us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, it both explores a different aesthetic and examines its implications. Whether in the mechanisms of production, the politics of consumption, the construction of sexuality or gender, or the formation and reformation of manners and morals, fashion is there.--[back cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.