Fashion & Society

18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c16801790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers...

Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and...

What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research...

This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.The wid...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia. The wide-ranging...

Often described as the hottest retail phenomenon, ephemeral retail concerns the growth of pop-up stores as a new mode of retailing. These temporary...

Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in en...

Features work by an impressive list of international female designers. Besides the internationally famous names, it also considers the women behind...

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion ...

Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywoods Golden Age look like they just stepped out of a beauty ...

How is fashion linked to our identity? How are we influenced to buy into fashion trends? How can we make the fashion industry more ethical and sust...

How is fashion linked to our identity? How are we influenced to buy into fashion trends? How can we make the fashion industry more ethical and sust...

Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, perf...

Providing insight into a broad and expanding range of topics, The Meanings of Dress, 5th Edition examines social, behavioral, and cultural aspects ...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small qua...

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from gr...

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the p...

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the p...

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to ...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire ...

Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly priz...

Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle an...

Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations...

This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. F...

Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume the ty...

Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume the ty...

Shortlisted for the CSA Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2021 Listed as one of The Five Most Essential Books about Art and Fashion, ArtNews, 202...

Beginning with Alexander McQueens infamous attempt to live stream his 2009 Platos Atlantis collection on SHOWStudio, this book traces how digital a...

Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and hu...

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth ce...

Average body mass in many Western cultures is getting larger and yet the fashion system seems mostly unchanged. Major fashion houses still limit th...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great import...

From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century womans wardrobe. They not o...

I adored this book and cant recommend it highly enough CATHY HORYN Beautifully executed NORMA KAMALI A visual feast GILES DEACON Entertaining, t...