Fashion Talks

Fashion Talks
Author: Shira Tarrant,Marjorie Jolles
Publsiher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781438443201

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Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Fashion Talks

Fashion Talks
Author: Shira Tarrant,Marjorie Jolles
Publsiher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-08-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781438443218

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Fashion Talks is a vibrant look at the politics of everyday style. Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles bring together essays that cover topics such as lifestyle Lolitas, Hollywood baby bumps, haute couture hijab, gender fluidity, steampunk, and stripper shoes, and engage readers with accessible and thoughtful analyses of real-world issues. This collection explores whether style can shift the limiting boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexuality, while avoiding the traps with which it attempts to rein us in. Fashion Talks will appeal to cultural critics, industry insiders, mainstream readers, and academic experts who are curious about the role fashion plays in the struggles over identity, power, and the status quo.

The Psychology of Fashion

The Psychology of Fashion
Author: Carolyn Mair
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781317217626

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The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image, how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing, and why we develop certain shopping behaviours. With fashion imagery ever present in the streets, press and media, The Psychology of Fashion shows how fashion and psychology can make a positive difference to our lives.

The International Politics of Fashion

The International Politics of Fashion
Author: Andreas Behnke
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781317656234

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This book seeks to address and fill a puzzling omission in contemporary critical IR scholarship. Following on from the aesthetic turn in IR, critical and ‘postmodern’ IR has produced an impressive array of studies into movies, literature, music and art and the way these media produce, mediate, and represent international politics. By contrast, the proponents of the aesthetic turn have overlooked fashion as a source of knowledge about global politics. Yet stories about the political role of fashion abound in the news media. Margaret Thatcher used dress to define her political image, and more recently the fascination with Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni and other women in similar positions, and the discussions about the appropriateness of their wardrobes, regularly makes the news. In Sudan, a female writer and activist successfully challenged the government over her right to wear trousers in public and in Europe, the debate on women’s headscarves has politicised a garment item and turned it into a symbol of fundamentalism and oppression. In response, the contributors to this book investigate the politics of fashion from a variety of perspectives, addressing theoretical as well as empirical issues, establishing the critical study of fashion and its protagonists as a central contribution to the aesthetic turn in international politics. The politics of fashion go beyond these examples of the uses and abuses of textiles and fabrics for political purposes, extending into its very ‘grammar’ and vocabulary. This book will be a unique contribution to the field and will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, critical IR theory and popular culture and world politics.

Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects

Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1865
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN: NYPL:33433075785026

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Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects a Series of Popular Lectures by J G Holland

Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects  a Series of Popular Lectures  by J  G  Holland
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland,J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
Publsiher: University of Michigan Library
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1866
Genre: History
ISBN: UOMDLP:afy0530:0001.001

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Slave to Fashion

Slave to Fashion
Author: Minney Safia
Publsiher: New Internationalist
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781780263991

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: “Slave to Fashion offers hope of a fairer, more ethical world and gives the reader plenty of tools to navigate a challenging fashion system.”—Livia Firth There are over 35 million people trapped in modern slavery today—the largest number of slaves in modern history. This is fueled by the global demand for cheap labor—which is what makes the fast fashion industry work. Slave to Fashion is a highly accessible book which uses brilliant design, personal stories, and easy-to-grasp infographics to raise awareness among common brand consumers. Fair trade and sustainable fashion expert Safia Minney draws on her extensive knowledge and personal experience to call attention to the human hardship that goes hand-in-hand with producing our clothes, and highlights what governments, business leaders, and consumers can do to call time on this unnecessary suffering. The product of a successful crowdfunding campaign, Slave to Fashion celebrates those fighting for justice and the many initiatives that are taking place. It contains a practical toolkit that all consumers can use to demand change from the companies that produce our clothes. Safia Minney is a pioneer in ethical business. She developed the fashion industry’s first fair trade supply chains and has helped to create social and organic standards to improve the lives of thousands of economically marginalized people in the developing world. Minney now brings her expertise and experience to help businesses embrace sustainability and transparency in their operations and branding. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including Naked Fashion and Slow Fashion.

The Most Beautiful Job in the World

The Most Beautiful Job in the World
Author: Giulia Mensitieri
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781350110151

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“A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture” – Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the neoliberal economy, it has emerged as the glittering face of capitalism, bringing together prestige, power and beauty and occupying a central place in media and consumer fantasies. Yet the fashion industry, which claims to offer highly desirable job opportunities, relies significantly on job instability, not just in outsourced garment production but at the very heart of its creative production of luxury. Based on an in-depth investigation involving stylists, models, designers, hairdressers, make-up artists, photographers and interns, anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri goes behind fashion's glamorous facade to explore the lived realities of working in the industry. This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of 'the most beautiful job in the world,' showing that exploitation isn't confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment of models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic centre of fashion.