Unveiling Fashion: Business, Culture, and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry - Couverture rigide

Godart, F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230358357 ISBN 13 : 9780230358355

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

For most people, fashion can daze and confuse. It is, however, a fascinating phenomenon that is key to how we define our identities, and it plays a central role in our lives. Proposing a comprehensive and accessible account of the global fashion industry, this book aims to present fashion in all its diversity and richness, to 'unveil' its mysterious mechanisms. Drawing on six core principles from the industry, Frederic Godart guides the reader through the economic, cultural and social arena of the world's most glamorous industry. First, in the everyday-life game of identity-building, where fashion is deployed, between the individual and society. Secondly, the convergence of trends reveals how social influence is played out; likewise, fashion as an art, and how this is characterized by a creative and aesthetic autonomy. Finally, to all these dimensions, contemporary fashion adds the figure of the 'creative genius,' and gives a prominent importance to brands. Fashion is a rich symbolic world, and its 'empire' is spreading.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0230358357
• ISBN 13: 9780230358355
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208