Trending now : : new developments in fashion studies / / edited by Laura Petican [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Petican, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, UK : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Laura Petican , Mariam Esseghaier , Angela Nurse and Damayanthie Eluwawalage -- Fashioning the Transatlantic: Accessorising Men: From Neckties to Bathers / Sarah Heaton -- The Paradoxical Nature of ‘Pauperist’ Style as Haute Couture / Llewellyn Negrin -- Percy Savage and His Role in Paris Couture 1951-1965: Issues of the Creation and Organisation of Public Relations Systems / Sara Skillen -- Dressing for the Revolution: Fashion and Politics in the 1871 Paris Commune / Leonard R. Koos -- Exaggerated Modesty: The Evolution and Acceptance of Showing the Navel in Swimwear and Other Clothing / Patricia Hunt-Hurst and Amy Scarborough -- Wedding Dresses in Italy during the Twentieth Century / Anna Balzarro -- ‘I Want to be Happy Looking at Myself’: Lolita Style and Its Embodied Practices between Resistance and Urban Fashion / Laura Porzio -- Being Yourself: Dress as a Change Agent / Linda Shearer -- The Ah Beng Subculture: The Influence of Consumption on Identity Formation among the Malaysian Chinese / Rachel Chan Suet Kay -- Dress Theory: Exploring Critical Issues / Damayanthie Eluwawalage -- Fashion, Possibility and Individual Agency: Theoretical Perspectives / Anna-Mari Almila -- Dadaist Elements in the Works of Martin Margiela / Jure Purgaj and Simona Jevšnik -- What Is Clothing Hiding, but Fashion Can Make Visible? The Connection between Deconstruction and Surrealism / Agata Zborowska -- Trompe L’Oeil in Fashion / Cassandra Gero -- ‘I Should Never Make Such a Fool of Myself as to Wear Them’: Fashioning Public/Private Identities in Jean Rhys’ Modernist Fiction / Sarah Downes -- ‘Miniskirts Make Money’: Post-War British Fashion Promotion in Films by the COI / Jo Stephenson -- Fashion and Contemporary Club Culture: Reciprocal Reaction between Fashion, Dance, and Music / Dejan Agatonovic -- Dress as a Performing Object / Ayşe Günay -- Hillbilly Deluxe: ‘Country Couture’ and the Performance of Masculinity in Country Music / Janet Aspley -- Heritage: The Difficult Innovation of the Fashion System / Cecilia Winterhalter -- Cultural Borrowing and Cultural Theft: Why Burberry and Other Luxury Brands Should Take Note of Hermès and Its 2011 Sari Collections When Taking Inspiration from Non-Western Cultures / Donalea Scott -- Working in the Fashion World: A ‘Kind of Magic’ Precarity / Giulia Mensitieri -- Chinese Fashion Designers in Shanghai: Identifying a Fresh Perspective about Their Role in the World Order of Fashion / Tim Lindgren -- They Need to Step Up Their Fashion Game: Constructing and Policing New Femininities on a Nigerian Lifestyle Website / Simidele Dosekun -- The Position of Brazilian Fashion in a Borderless Place / Anamélia Fontana Valentim and Alessandra Brandão -- Changing Avatars of the Choli in India: Blouse to Hi-Fashion Garment / Nilakshi Roy and Preeta Nilesh -- The Poetics and Pragmatics of Doing Sustainable Fashion / Georgia McCorkill and Soumitri Varadarajan -- Design with a Conscience / Deborah Emmett -- Social and Environmental Concerns in the Fashion Industry: A Portrait of Québec’s Ethical Fashion Industry / Marie-Josée Hinse , Michèle Beaudoin , Caroline Boivin and Fabien Durif -- Consumable Ideologies: Designing Sustainable Behaviours in Kuwait / Noura Al-Naggar.