Face of Fashion
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Clothing Behaviour
Cocktail Dress
consumer culture analysis
cosmetic cultural practices
couture
Eau De
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ethnographic fashion research
Everyday Fashion
Fashion Editors
Fashion Photography
gender identity studies
Gibson Girl
Glad Rags
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imitation
interdisciplinary fashion theory
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Men's Dress
Men's Fashion
Men's Perfumes
Men's Underwear
Oscar De La Renta
photography
Pop Stars
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subcultural fashion trends
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Tight Lacing
western
Western Fashion
Women's Magazines
Women's Underwear
Young Men
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415052627
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion is dictated by elite designers and opinion leaders with evidence of a trickle-up effect from sub-cultures, mass consumer behaviour and everyday bricolage of fashion items. The text addresses the neglected area of men's fashion, as well as women's fashion, within a broad examination of the role of fashion in gender identity. The argument is developed through a number of key agencies and processes: consumerism and everyday fashion; the iconization of the body through fashion models and photography; the use of cosmetics to "make-up" the body; the nexus between fashion and gender; the changing fashions in underwear and swimwear as maps of the revealed body. These topics are approached from an interdisciplinary perspective that treats fashion systems as ethnographic traces of the cultural projection of the body.
