Fashion statements
Subtitle: on style, appearance, and reality
By: edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780230105423
Subjects: Fashion design; Philosophy; Fashion
Description: This book presents an eclectic array of essays regarding the meanings of fashion to articulate the new directions of an everyday cultural phenomenon. Contributors bring insightful, playful, and accessible takes on a subject that, though very much part of popular discourse, often gets little significant attention from theoretical perspectives. Looking at fashion through the prism of race, class, gender, and technological issues, this book reflects and interprets the hybridity of contemporary cultural inquiry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: You Cannes come in here dressed like that: a true story in two shoes / Erin Norris; title: The head monkey at Paris: Henry David Thoreau on fashion / David Farrell Krell; title: Fashion statements: communication and culture / Malcolm Barnard; title: Tech savvy: technology as the new fashion statement / Ava Chin; title: Fleshing it out: the tyranny of the A-line skirt / bell hooks; title: Osh Kosh b'gosh / Mary O'Donoghue; title: The fungi dress: a living garment: interview with Donna Franklin (July 2005) / Shannon Bell; title: Victimless leather: a prototype of stitch-less jacket grown in a technoscientific "body" / Shannon Bell; title: Is clothing art? / Jeff Weinstein; title: Fashion advice from the Anti-Christ / Lydia Hartunian; title: Puro high life / Maythee Rojas; title: Irony killed by the ironic T-shirt and the true religion of the American jean / Anne O'Neil; title: Jackie O., or: how I learned to stop worrying and love my Chanel / Ellen Fridland, Andrew Porter; title: The hat's the thing / Johanna Wagner; title: 'Pod peeps: why the iPod and other gadgets are fashion staples In the 'hood / Lynne d Johnson; title: Dressed to kill: or, women's right to bare arms / Kelly Oliver; title: The naked truth of antifashion philosophy / Nickolas Pappas; title: Vivienne Westwood: keeping critique alive / Sinéad Murphy; title: Fashion at a glance / Edward S. Casey; title: Plato's Greater Hippias / Albert A. Anderson, translator.