Dress code
Subtitle: the naked truth about fashion
By: Mari Grinde Arntzen ; translated by Kerry Pierce
Contributors: Pierce, Kerry
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781780234397
Subjects: Clothing trade; Fashion; Clothing and dress
Other titles: Naked truth about fashion
Work titles: Kleskoden
Description: "This book questions why we have such a love-hate relation ship with fashion. Guiding us through the major figures and brands of today's fashion system, Dress Code shows how they shape us and in turn why we love to be shaped by them. The book focuses on everyday, affordable 'fast fashion' brands as well as the luxury market, to show how both ends of the fashion industry exert a powerful force over our lives. It also discusses trend forecasters, the media and the pressures on consumers, arguing that the world of fashion is both a dictatorship and a democracy, directing our shopping habits as well as our appearance.This study explores what happens when we get dressed: why fashion can make us feel powerful, beautiful and original, yet also paradoxically works oppressively, forcing consumers to conform. This book peels off the layers of the world's fifth largest industry, garment by garment, to reveal fashion as a phenomenon, a business and an art. Grinde Arntzen is disturbed by its influence yet sympathetic to our desire - however ambivalent - to be stylish, smart or trendy. Dress Code is both a succinct and thought-provoking look at how the culture of dress dominates everyday life, and a lively and honest account of the pleasures and problems of fashion"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This book was first published in Norwegian in 2013 by Forlaget Manifest AS as: Kleskoden. Den nakne sannheten om mote"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-127).

Translated from the Norwegian.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Human beings; title: The democracy; title: Dictatorship; title: The brain; title: The future.