The Most Beautiful Job in the World : Lifting the Veil on the Fashion Industry /: Lifting the Veil on the Fashion Industry. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Giulia Mensitieri, Natasha Lehrer.
• Authors: Mensitieri, Giulia
• Other Names: Lehrer, Natasha translator.
• Contents: PrefaceFashion and the dreamIntroductionPart I: Fashion and Capitalism: a system for producing the dream1. Fabricating desire: press and advertising2. Haute couture, the apotheosis of the dream3. The circulation of the dream: fashion and globalizationPart II: Working in Fashion or 'lucky to be there'4. On the threshold of the dream: the salespeople5. The greater the prestige, the lower the pay: the rules of the game for fashion workers6. Prestige and precariousness: symbolic and material geographies7. At the heart of the dream: the designer-stylistsPart III: The dream and those who work in it8. At work with an up-and-coming fashion designer9. Knowing how to 'be there': work relationships10. Getting into fashion, creating a persona, coping in fashion, getting out of fashionConclusion.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: Fashion & society; Poverty & unemployment; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Design -- Fashion; Business & Economics -- Labor; Fashion design & theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350110151; 1350110159
• Related ISBNs: 9781350110137
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