Fashion & society books

Presents history that follows Berlin chic through a host of historical eras and events, including the Nazi eradication...  Read More >>

This book explores the changing meanings of glamour, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in...  Read More >>

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A completely revised and expanded new edition of a bestselling textbook, The Fashion Reader is designed for students,...  Read More >>

A completely revised and expanded new edition of a bestselling textbook, The Fashion Reader is designed for students,...  Read More >>

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While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion...  Read More >>

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The aesthetics of the body, valued so much by the Greeks, seem to have rediscovered a prominent place for men. Mirroring...  Read More >>

Featuring two separate works on male and female underwear, this study is full of surprises and powerful reflections...  Read More >>

Art students who plan to work in fashion design will value this unusual book and CD-ROM combination. The book opens...  Read More >>

This authoritative, unauthorized book on Versace combines the story of the company's founder with the rise of the...  Read More >>

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Contributors to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the Western interest...  Read More >>

This ethnography of Asian American designers in New York s fashion industry explores their relations to the garment...  Read More >>

This ethnography of Asian American designers in New York s fashion industry explores their relations to the garment...  Read More >>

Based on short ethnographic reports, this book offers a comprehensive and intertwined introduction to the history...  Read More >>

""This fundamental work by Jean Leymarie, which was first published in 1987 and has been long out of print, has...  Read More >>

Two world-wars changed society forever: the status of women, class system, attitudes to sex. Fashion played a key...  Read More >>

The Ballets Russes has engaged people for over 100 years, ever since Russian born Sergei Diaghilev created this...  Read More >>

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A celebration of the sixties revival Mod subculture in Australia during the 1980s.  Read More >>