V I S U A L A R T S – Fashion - Fashion & Culture
Rethinking Fashion Globalization Edited by Sarah Cheang, Royal College of Art, UK, Erica de Greef, African Fashion Research Institute, South Africa & Yoko Takagi, Bunka Gakuen University, Japan
This edited collection draws together original, diverse, and richly reflective critiques of the fashion system from both established and emerging fashion scholars, researchers and creative practitioners. Chapters straddle current calls for decolonization and inclusion, as well as reflections on de-westernization, post-colonialism, sustainability, transnationalism, national identities, social activism, global fashion narratives, diversity, and more. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 256 pages • 91 bw illus PB 9781350180062 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350180055 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350181304 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350180079 • £22.49 / $28.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Contemporary Indonesian Fashion Through the Looking Glass
Alessandra Lopez y Royo, SOAS University of London, UK This book explores how contemporary Indonesian fashion has moved away from ‘national dress’ and ‘colonial fashion’ to claim its own distinct identity. Challenging the dominant Eurocentric model of fashion and beauty discourses, it explores the diversity and complexity of the Indonesia’s sartorial offerings, from traditional ikat-weaving to contemporary fashion blogging.
Fat Fashion
The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies Paolo Volonté, 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 September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350126930 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350126923 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350126916 • £21.59 / $27.09 ePdf 9781350126954 • £21.59 / $27.09 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
The Psychopolitics of Fashion
Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion Otto von Busch, Parsons, The New School for Design, USA
Exploring clothing on the streets and in shopping malls, on the catwalk, in magazines, and online, the book examines how Indonesian fashion is made, presented, and consumed. Beautifully illustrated and deeply researched, it offers a new perspective on a rapidly developing new fashion capital.
In this book Otto von Busch imagines fashion as a political state and reveals the acts of aesthetic superiority, micro-aggression and bullying which characterise getting dressed. Through four case studies, Von Busch suggests that it is in fact these experiences, and concurrent feelings of inclusion, adoration and power, which make fashion so pleasurable. Through these explorations, The Psychopolitics of Fashion offers new perspectives on fashion through the lens of politics, policing, affect and statehood, and even investigates the implications of these findings for fashion designers.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 256 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781350237957 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350061309 ePub 9781350061323 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350061316 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Dress and Fashion Research • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 200 pages • 49 bw illus PB 9781350242814 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350102309 ePub 9781350102316 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350102323 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dress Cultures Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK and Elizabeth Wilson
Fashioning Indie
Popular Fashion, Music and Gender Rachel Lifter, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA
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Wearing the Cheongsam
Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora Cheryl Sim, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
When indie rocker Pete Doherty began a relationship with supermodel Kate Moss in 2005, the indie music scene and its signature look reached the height of popular fashion. Fashioning Indie charts this rise and the subsequent emergence of 'festival fashion', an indie-inspired trend that became a persuasive fashion trope and lucrative marketing tool for British and American high streets. Lifter argues that, amidst these changes, the ideal indie figure transformed from the slender, white, guitar-playing man into the festival fashionista. It was she who negotiated the blurred lines of alternative and mainstream style, a blurring that defines 21st-century popular culture.
Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings of the cheongsam for members of the Chinese diaspora? In a study grounded in first-hand accounts of wearing, Cheryl Sim explores the practices and experiences of women in Canada, a major Chinese diaspora, and carries out the first in-depth study of the cheongsam from this critical point of view. Covering issues such as heritage, ethnic identity, authenticity, nationalism, patriarchy and assimilation, Sim reveals the many meanings of the cheongsam. This book is the entry-point into discussions of Chinese dress and diaspora.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 224 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350238077 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350126329 ePub 9781350126343 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350126336 • £67.50 / $83.76 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 216 pages • 29 bw illus PB 9781350238060 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788310819 ePub 9781350109872 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350109865 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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