Fashioning models
Subtitle: image, text, and industry
By: edited by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780857853103; 9780857853110; 9781847881557; 9781847881540
Subjects: Models (Persons)
Description: This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black models shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal speciafically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.