A cultural history of fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries : from catwalk to sidewalk /: from catwalk to sidewalk. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Cultural history of fashion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
• Further Information: Note: Bonnie English.
• Other Names: English, Bonnie
• 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 design -- Delaunay: Cubism -- Stepanova and Popova: Russian constructivism -- Schiaparelli: surrealism -- Balenciaga: organic modernism -- Viktor & Rolf: neo-Dadaism -- Martin Margiela: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 391.00904; History of art / art & design styles; Fashion -- History -- 20th century; Fashion design -- History -- 20th century; Fashion -- History -- 21st century; Fashion design -- History -- 21st century; Clothing and dress -- Social aspects; Clothing and dress -- Social aspects; Fashion; Fashion design; Fashion -- History -- 20th century; Fashion design -- History -- 20th century; Clothing and dress -- Social aspects; Cultural studies; Sociology; Fashion & society; The arts: general issues; Design -- Fashion; Design -- History & Criticism; History of fashion; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857851376; 0857851373
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.