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Book View of Fashion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Adburgham
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-02-03
  • ISBN : 1000831515
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book View of Fashion written by Alison Adburgham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, View of Fashion is a collection of articles on fashions shows, parties and people in London, Paris, Italy and New York, including a section looking back to the surprising sportswomen of Victorian and Edwardian times. Lady M.P.s are observed from the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, the Headmistress and the Board of Governors are studied from the School Hall on Speech Day, tennis champions in the Players’ Tearoom at Wimbledon. Fuller figures descend upon Woburn Abbey by helicopter, model girls weather a stormy crossing on the Queen Elizabeth, fancy goods are reviewed at Brighton, costume exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, corsetry in the River Room at the Savoy. There are profiles of well-known personalities on the fashion scene and a section on men’s fashions and male models. Alison Adburgham’s view of fashion is both accurate and acute; often unexpected, never distorted. It picks out the essential, mocks the meaningless and notes significance in the nuance. It is view with which Haro is in sensitive accord, and which he here brilliantly illustrates with ten full pages and many incidental drawings. This book will be of interest to students of fashion, journalism and social history.

Book Fashion History

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  • Author : Linda Welters
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-08
  • ISBN : 1474253644
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Fashion History written by Linda Welters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time. Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai'i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from archaeological findings and theoretical advancements, the book shows that fashion history should be understood as a global phenomenon, originating well before and beyond the fourteenth century European court, which is continually, and erroneously, cited as fashion's birthplace. Providing a fresh framework for fashion history scholarship, Fashion History: A Global View will inspire inclusive dress narratives for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Book Fashion Spaces

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  • Author : Vésma Kontere McQuillan
  • Publisher : Frame Publishers
  • Release : 2020-12-17
  • ISBN : 9492311488
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Fashion Spaces written by Vésma Kontere McQuillan and published by Frame Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to define fashion spaces as an emerging area of research within architectural writing. Social media has brought a new type of space into the world of fashion retail. When architecture and fashion meet in the creation of ephemeral spaces for the immediate presentation of new collections, for example, these temporary but real spaces are brought into the realm of the everlasting digital space as they are shared and re-shared on platforms like Instagram. Fashion spaces can best be defined, then, as co-created, ever changing and prevailing metaspaces where the dialogue amongst designers, consumers and industry leaders continues well after the real space has vanished. Can these fashion spaces have a bigger impact on consumers than real-time experience of space? How may the dialogues developing within and as result of fashion spaces influence physical retail design? Can designers use fashion spaces as sites for new cultural production? These are but some of the questions tackled by Fashion Spaces: A Theoretical View. The book is created via a practice-oriented approach to academic teaching and research, through the collaboration of academics, students and the retail industry. Following an introductory essay by professor Vésma Kontere McQuillan and assistant professor Kjeld Hansen, which tackles the problematics of research in the field and presents a conceptual model for further research, seven case studies developed by students of the retail design program at the School of Arts, Design, and Media at Kristiania University College explore possible applications of this model. Features This book explores and defines fashion spaces as an emerging area of research within retail design. It is created via a practice-oriented approach to academic teaching and research, through the collaboration of academics, students and the retail industry. Case studies developed by students of the retail design program at the School of Arts, Design, and Media at Kristiania University College explore possible applications of the conceptual model expounded by professor Vésma Kontere McQuillan and assistant professor Kjeld Hansen.

Book A Sociological View of Fashion

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  • Author : Shirley Hawkins
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Sociological View of Fashion written by Shirley Hawkins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is designed for the body: it is created, promoted and worn by the body. Fashion is aimed at the body and the latter is the one that has to be dressed in almost all social gatherings. In the West, and increasingly outside it as well, fashion structures most of our experience of dressing, although, as I argue in this book, it is not the only factor that influences everyday life, since other factors, such as gender, social class, income and tradition, also influence. The fashionable dress is one that embodies the latest aesthetic trend; it is the garment defined at a given moment as desirable, beautiful and popular. By manifesting the latest aesthetic trend and by making certain types of garments available to the public, fashion provides the "raw material" for everyday clothing, manufactured by a multitude of entities operating in a variety of locations. To understand fashion, one needs to understand the relationship between the various agencies that operate within the fashion system: technical fashion schools and their students, designers and design firms, tailors and seamstresses, models and photographers, as well as publishers, distributors, retailers, shoppers, stores and consumers. In other words, studying fashion implies going from production to distribution and consumption: without the innumerable seamstresses and tailors there would be no garments to consume; Without the promotion of fashion by cultural intermediaries, such as fashion journalists, "fashion" in its function of marking the latest style would not go very far; and without consumer acceptance, fashion suits would be left hanging in factories, in shops and in closets. Thus, when we speak of fashion, we are simultaneously referring to a series of interconnected and overlapping organizations involved in the production and promotion of clothing, as well as in the actions of people acting on their bodies when they "dress".

Book Here   There

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Here There written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fashion  Desire and Anxiety

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  • Author : Rebecca Arnold
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780813529042
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Fashion Desire and Anxiety written by Rebecca Arnold and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon both contemporary visual and written sources, this book illuminates the role that fashion plays in reflecting and shaping attitudes toward display and adornment. As traditional cultural notions of what is admissible or acceptable have fragmented, fashion has been a key site for experimentation. At both the haute couture and street level, clothing enables identities to be visualized, confronting the spectator with contradictory messages embodying the confusion of the time.Rebecca Arnold focuses on the last thirty years and places the desires and anxieties that surround fashion in their historical context. She highlights four key themes: -- Status, Power, and Display (the flaunting of wealth, the alienating power structures of good taste), -- Violence and Provocation (the rising tide of aggression in both fashion imagery and street styles), -- The Eroticized Body (the power of sex and display and the pressure to conform to ideals), and -- Gender and Subversion (the blurring of identity to disguise and confuse).This richly illustrated book always keeps its focus on the historical and ethical potential and possibilities that modern fashion embodies.

Book Illustrating Fashion

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  • Author : Steven Stipelman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2017-10-05
  • ISBN : 1501322966
  • Pages : 1157 pages

Download or read book Illustrating Fashion written by Steven Stipelman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book filled with original art provides a step-by-step approach to drawing the fashion figure, garment details, and the various techniques used to render fashion illustration. For the more advanced student or working designer, Illustrating Fashion explores concepts such as manipulating the figure, more complex poses and rendering techniques and concepts of fashion art. Illustrating significant historical and contemporary designer garments, Stipelman helps the student understand a specific contribution by that designer and how it applies to the lesson. Readers will explore and develop their own talents and goals, thus creating their own illustration style. Key Features · Chapters begin with an overview of the subject, including a brief fashion history or the relationship of the garment detail to the figure · Full color illustrations throughout highlight rendering techniques from basic to advanced · Explores advanced concepts and refined rendering techniques · Includes dedicated chapters on men, children and accessories New to this Edition · Features 20% new illustrations including updated fashion styles · Shows new drawings of the side back figure and expanded sections on advanced rendering techniques · Includes a STUDIO with 9 new video tutorials (15 total) on basic, intermediate and advanced illustration techniques, plus new drawing exercises for each chapter · New Instructor Resources include grading guidelines for chapter exercises

Book Fashion Now

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  • Author : Celia Stall-Meadows
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780131594104
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Fashion Now written by Celia Stall-Meadows and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a rapidly changing industry, "Fashion Now: A Global Perspective" offers the very latest information in the fashion industry. Providing a detailed and highly visual study of fashion concepts and a global view of the fashion industry, learn how to become successful through decision-making based on the marketing approach - finding out what customers want and then providing a product or service to meet their needs and wants.

Book Illustrating Fashion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Stipelman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2017-10-05
  • ISBN : 150132294X
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Illustrating Fashion written by Steven Stipelman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This text provides a step-by-step approach to drawing the fashion figure, garment, details and the various techniques used to render fashion illustration"--

Book Fashion and Anti fashion

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  • Author : Ted Polhemus
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1447739361
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Fashion and Anti fashion written by Ted Polhemus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring adornment and dress from an anthropological perspective - a classic text from 1978 revised with a new introduction and postscript for the 21 century.

Book Fashion Illustration for Designers

Download or read book Fashion Illustration for Designers written by Kathryn Hagen and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion design begins in the designer’s creative mind, and drawing is the crucial next step to communicating creative ideas to others to bring those ideas to reality. Clear, expressive drawings engage and bring together people in patternmaking, production, marketing, and all other facets of the fashion business, ensuring that everyone shares the same vision that originates with the designer. Kathryn Hagen brings decades of experience teaching design students how best to translate their ideas into drawings. She opens with basic drawing skills using both hand tools and computer techniques before moving on to applying those skills to both the human figure and the specifics of various types of clothing. Throughout the book she exposes designers to myriad techniques and styles, encouraging each individual to discover what works best for him or her. Each chapter ends with practice exercises as well as visual references to review and reinforce material learned in the chapter lessons. Videos demonstrating hands-on examples can be viewed at waveland.com/Hagen, with emphasis on distressed fabrics and novelty treatments. 84 pages of color present a wide variety of rendering techniques.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry written by Francesca Sterlacci and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.

Book Fashion

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  • Author : Gini Stephens Frings
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780130806413
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Fashion written by Gini Stephens Frings and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized according to the product development and marketing process accepted in the fashion industry, the new edition of this introductory text follows products from design concept through to consumer purchase. This complete coverage includes a complete description of global influences on the entire fashion industry.

Book Fashion  Design and Events

Download or read book Fashion Design and Events written by Kim Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad audiences and may tour the globe. Staging these events might help to brand destinations, boost visitor numbers and trigger popular debates about the contributions that fashion and design can make to identity. They may also tell us something about our culture and wider society. This edited volume for the first time examines fashion and design events from a social perspective, including the meanings they bestow and their potential economic, cultural and personal impacts. It explores the reasons for their popularity and influence, and provides a critique of their growth in different markets. Events examined include fashion weeks, fashion or design themed exhibitions, historical re-enactments, extreme/alternative fashion and design events, and large-scale public events such as royal weddings and horse races. International examples and case studies are drawn from countries as diverse as the USA, UK, Germany, Bhutan, New Zealand and Australia. These are used to develop and critique various thematic concepts linked to fashion and design events, such as identity, gender, aspirations and self-image, commodification, authenticity, destination development and marketing, business strategy and protection/infringement of intellectual property. Fashion, Design and Events also provides a futurist view of these types of events and sets out a future research agenda. This book has a unique focus on events associated with fashion and design and features a swathe of disciplinary backgrounds. It will appeal to a broad academic audience, such as students of art and design, cultural studies, tourism, events studies, sociology and marketing.

Book Taste and Fashion

Download or read book Taste and Fashion written by Raf Fulcher and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fashion and Cultural Studies

Download or read book Fashion and Cultural Studies written by Susan B. Kaiser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion and Cultural Studies addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Bridging theory and practice, it draws on cultural diversity in fashion, dress and style in the context of globalization and its varied cultural-historical underpinnings.