A cultural history of fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries : from catwalk to sidewalk / Bonnie English.
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London :
Bloomsburt,
2013.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The interplay of commerce and culture before the First World War : The rise of haute couture ; The rise of consumerism ; The interplay of commerce and culture ; The art of fashion advertising
- The democratization of fashion: machine age aesthetics : Flooding the American market: reproductions and fakes ; Coco Chanel
- Framing fashion: the artists who made clothes : Modernist abstract des gin ; Delaunay: Cubism ; Stepanova and Popova: Russian constructivism ; Schiaparelli: surrealism ; Balenciaga: organic modernism ; Viktor & Rolf: neo-Dadaism ; Martin Mariela: postmodern deconstruction ; Hussein Chalayan: techno-design
- Fashioning the American body : The home of ready-to-wear: Seventh Avenue, New York ; Menswear: shirts ; A fashion icon: Levi's jeans ; Decades of dominance: American dress in Hollywood film ; American conservatism: the designer/stylist: Lauren, Klein and Karan ; Global conglomerates
- Postmodernism and fashion : A cultural contextualization ; Postmodernism in fashion and art ; Popular culture and pastiche: Quant, Courrèges, Cardin, Saint Laurent and Ashley ; The T-shirt: a blank canvas ; Disposable fashion ; Youth codes: the hippie movement
- Anti-fashion : The deviance of fashion ; Punk fashion: Rhodes and Westwood ; Fashion as ideology: Benetton, Moschino and Gaultier ; Street style
- Japanese conceptual fashion : Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo ; The aesthetics of poverty ; A cultural heritage ; Textile design ; Conceptualization ; Harajuku street fashion
- Global practices: 1980s onwards : The death of haute couture? ; LVMH: the super syndicate ; Branding: the designer as product ; Perfume: a licence to make money ; Fashion and philanthropy ; Fashion as installation
- Post-2000: global recession and ideological conflict ; A shift in the balance of power ; The twenty-first-century image of modern womanhood ; Beauty and the beast: fashion noir ; The rise of menswear
- The changing fashion market in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries : Marketing and promotion ; E-marketing and designer web sites ; Reinventing the shopping experience ; New retailing networks ; Luxury heritage branding ; Internationalizing fashion ; The New Media: blogs and social networking
- Eco-fashion, sustainability and ethics : Green as the new black ; More than just a marketing strategy? ; The environmental footprint ; Eco-designers ; Ethical concerns
- Looking ahead: the emergence of Asian and Indian fashion design industries : China: building an infrastructure ; India: the old and new
- Conclusion.