Fashioning Models - Couverture souple

 
9781847881540: Fashioning Models
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1847881548 ISBN 13 : 9781847881540
Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture?

This volume brings together cuttingedge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal specifically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face. It also considers how models glamorize consumption through everyday activities, and neoliberal labour forms via reality Tv.

With commentaries from industry professionals who experienced the cultural juggernaut of the supermodels, the final essay situates their impact within the rise of brand culture and the globalization of fashion markets since 1990. Accessible and highly engaging, Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and related disciplines.

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À propos des auteurs

Joanne Entwistle is Reader in Culture and Creative Industries at King's College, London, UK.

Elizabeth Wissinger is Associate Professor at the BMCC campus of the City University of New York, USA.

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Éditeur
Berg Publishers
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847881548
ISBN 13 
9781847881540
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
238
Éditeur
Entwistle Joanne
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  1847881556 ISBN 13 :  9781847881557
Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2012
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