Fashion and the Cultural Economy (Dress, Body, Culture)
Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd; Berg Publishers
Published: November 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781845204723
Subjects: Costume; Sales & marketing; Social theory
Description: Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and sold? Since there are few studies that actually examine the work that goes on inside the world of fashion, we know little about these processes. This book addresses this gap in our knowledge by exami.