An Anthology
Edited by Francesca Granata, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA This is the first anthology of the growing field of fashion criticism, claiming a place for writing on fashion alongside other, better established areas of pop culture criticism. Exploring the history of fashion criticism, the book brings together two centuries of previously uncollected articles and writings, from Oscar Wilde’s editorial’s in Women’s World to the ground-breaking fashion journalism of the 1980s along with today’s proliferation of fashion bloggers. It is a key resource for students of fashion studies, media, and journalism. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 208 pages PB 9781350058804 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350058811 • £75.00 / $102.00 ePub 9781350058798 • £21.59 / $27.09 ePdf 9781350058781 • £21.59 / $27.09 Bloomsbury Academic
Fat Fashion
The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies Paolo Volonté, Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Average body mass in many Western cultures is getting larger and yet the fashion system seems mostly unchanged. Major fashion houses still limit their output to small sizes and the dominant ideal of the female body in fashion imagery is still thin. In the first systematic study of fatness and thinness in the fashion industry, Paolo Volonté draws on influential literature on the body, beauty standards and the roles of clothing in society to explore the nature of the segregation of fat bodies in fashion and considers what the future may hold for consumers, designers and marketers alike. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350126930 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350126923 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350126916 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350126954 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Communicating Fashion Clothing, Culture, and Media
V I S U A L A R T S - Fashion - Fashion & Culture
Fashion Criticism
Myles Ethan Lascity, Southern Methodist University, USA We each make decisions about clothing and personal adornment every day, often reflecting how we view ourselves and impacting how others view us. From style magazines to social media influencers and brand ambassadors, a multi-million dollar industry is dedicated to influencing our decisions and analyzing the choices of others. Communicating Fashion introduces key concepts from the intersecting worlds of fashion and communication studies to explore the ways people use clothing to express themselves and how media systems support and give meaning to specific goods and fashions. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 248 pages • 100 bw illus PB 9781350112230 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350112247 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350112254 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350112261 • £22.49 / $28.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dress Cultures Wearing the Niqab
Muslim Women in the UK and the US Anna Piela, Northwestern University, USA The niqab has become a symbol of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam— barbarity, backwardness, female exploitation, and radicalization—and these meanings are regularly ascribed to niqabis without consultation, in debates where wearers are absent. This book counteracts this absence by bringing niqab-wearers’ voices to the fore in first-hand accounts of religious agency, identity, community, and urban spaces. Situating wearers’ experiences firmly in socio-political and media contexts, the book demonstrates that, for many wearers, political symbols are deeply personal, freely chosen, multi-layered, and socially situated. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 208 pages • 11 bw illus HB 9781350166035 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350166059 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350166042 • £67.50 / $83.76 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fashioning the Modern Middle East Gender, Body, and Nation
Edited by Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK & Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Lebanese American University, Lebanon In the first book to address the critical role of the dressed and undressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture, paint a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 224 pages • 83 bw illus PB 9781350135215 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350135208 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350135222 • £25.19 / $32.02 ePdf 9781350135239 • £25.19 / $32.02 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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