Fashioning Fashion : European Dress in Detail 1700-1915
Author: Sharon Sadako Takeda
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791350622
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Fashioning Fashion
Author: Sharon Sadako Takeda
Publisher: Prestel Pub
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783791350622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuxurious textiles, exacting tailoring, and lush trimmings abound in this glorious volume that celebrates the evolution of European dress through two centuries. Fashion is in the details. The textiles, tailoring, and trimmings all work together in the creation of the finest pieces. Drawing on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's internationally known fashion collection, this gorgeous book tells the story--in words and beautiful pictures--of fashion's aesthetic and technical development from the Age of Enlightenment to World War I, a period when fashionable dress underwent sweeping changes. Many remarkable examples of men's, women's, and children's garments are featured here for the first time, including an extraordinarily rare 1790s man's vest designed to promote sympathy with the French Revolution; a stunning 1845 black satin gown from the royal court of Portugal heavily embroidered with gold; and an 1891 evening mantle with silk embroidery, glass beads, and ostrich feathers designed by French couturier Émile Pingat. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the evolution of fashion, this generously illustrated book provides a rich visual history of the changes that occurred in fashionable dress spanning a period of more than two hundred years.
Fashioning Fashion
Author: Sharon Sadako Takeda
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783641062521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFashioning Identity
Author: Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1474249116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays, and creating tension between personal statements and social performances. Fashioning Identity explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption,by examining a diverse series of case studies - from ninety-year old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases, the role of time, gender, age memory, novelty, copying, the body and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene. Offering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis' seminal concept of 'identity ambivalence' in Fashion, Culture and Identity (1992), Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of 'status ambivalence', in which fashioning one's own identity has become increasingly complicated.
Fashioning James Bond
Author: Llewella Chapman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1350164658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'. Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.
Fashioning Fabrics
Author: Sandy Black
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigating the variety of ways in which textiles are used by fashion designers, this book explores the experimental and the beautiful in textile and fashion design.
Fashioning the Bourgeoisie
Author: Philippe Perrot
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780691000817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family.
Fashioning Technology
Author: Syuzi Pakhchyan
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0596514379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides instructions for creating a variety of home accents, accessories, and toys that combine crafting and technology.
Fashioning Africa
Author: Jean Allman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004-09-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0253216893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. In 'Fashioning Africa' an international group of anthropologists, historians and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic.
When Clothes Become Fashion
Author: Ingrid Loschek
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1847887465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the world of fashion - its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions.
