The Empire of Fashion
Subtitle: Dressing Modern Democracy (New French Thought Series)
Contributors: Richard Sennett (Foreword); Catherine Porter (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691102627
Subjects: Costume; Fashion & beauty industries; History of ideas, intellectual history; Political structures: democracy; Social & political philosophy; Social history; Sociology; Fashion & Grooming; Social Science; Beauty & Grooming - General; Comparative Literature; European History; Philosophy; Philosophy / Political; Popular Culture - General
First sentence: FASHION does not belong to all ages or to all civilizations: it has an identifiable starting point in history.