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Zusatztext A perfect overview of the different parameters of fashion and food: every culture around the globe uses fashion and food to integrate people and to express ideas about gods, behavior, hierarchy, political systems … Based on excellent research, very well written and super beautiful. Informationen zum Autor Melissa Marra-Alvarez is Curator of Education and Research at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA. She curated the exhibition Force of Nature (2017) and co-curated Fashion & Politics (2009). She has contributed to Fashion Underground (2015), Dance and Fashion (2013), Fashion Designers A-Z, The Collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (2013), Bloomsbury's Fashion Photography Archive and Oxford Art Online . Elizabeth Way is Associate Curator of Costume at The Museum at FIT, New York, USA. She co-curated the 2016 exhibition Black Fashion Designers . Klappentext Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, examines the influence of food culture through the lens of fashion over the last 250 years. It focuses on the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion and how these connect to broader socio-cultural change, examining how vital both have been in expressing cultural movements across centuries, and specifically exploring the role food plays in fashionable expression.With its superb selection of images, and thought-provoking and engaging discussion, Food and Fashion appeals to fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in food and food studies, including scholars and students, those who enjoy the fashion of food, and all who appreciate the visual culture of food, fashion, and art. Vorwort Accompanying a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, this book features contributions from curators and food/fashion authorities exploring the interconnections between food and fashion culture. Zusammenfassung Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York’s only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, examines the influence of food culture through the lens of fashion over the last 250 years. It focuses on the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion and how these connect to broader socio-cultural change, examining how vital both have been in expressing cultural movements across centuries, and specifically exploring the role food plays in fashionable expression.With its superb selection of images, and thought-provoking and engaging discussion, Food and Fashion appeals to fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in food and food studies, including scholars and students, those who enjoy the fashion of food, and all who appreciate the visual culture of food, fashion, and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface by Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA Preface by Fabio Parasecoli, Professor of Food Studies, New York University, USA Introduction: Fashioning Food - Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way Part 1: Food Meets Fashion: Contemporary and Historical Views 1. From Haute Cooking to Fast Food Chic: The Pairing of Food and Fashion - Melissa Marra-Alvarez 2. Haute Couture, Haute Cuisine - Elizabeth Way 3. Dressed to Dine: The Restaurant as Fashionable, Feminine Space - Elizabeth Way Part 2: Activism: Nature, Labor, and the body<...
