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The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about 'cultural' and 'creative' work as a major driver of developed economies.
List of contents
ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction1 Addressing the Body2 Theorizing Fashion and Dress3 Fashion, Dress and Social Change4 Fashion and Identity5 Fashion and Gender6 Fashion, Adornment and Sexuality7 The Fashion IndustryConclusionBibliographyIndex
About the author
Jo Entwistle is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London.
Summary
The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective.
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"The Fashioned Body is a landmark text without which we might still be exploring the sartorial as pure expression of the zeitgeist, never considering fashion wearers. Instead, in this beautifully written account, fashion emerges as a negotiation between designers and wearers in which the physical body is central. Updated and with new substantive sections on space and urban geography and the 'aesthetic economy', this second edition charts the rise of fashion from peculiarity of Western modernity to its centrality in contemporary global cultural economies. It explores fashion's gendered investments in debates about both 'pornification' and modesty and crucially frames fashion as 'situated bodily practice'." Ruth Holliday, University of Leeds "This is a timely and much-awaited new edition of The Fashioned Body, a path-breaking book that conjoined fashion, dress and the body in new and exciting ways. The new edition clearly demonstrates the value of drawing together complex, interdisciplinary literatures to explore and expose the making and shaping of fashion markets. The new emphasis on the ways in which clothing is always embodied, contingent and context specific adds considerably to our understanding of fashion practice. Entwistle weaves together a powerful narrative of how magic and meaning, design and desire are conjoined with market mechanisms and regulatory regimes to produce fashion. By addressing the complex and interwoven amalgam of production, consumption, creativity and constraint, Entwistle reveals the alchemy that is contemporary fashion. A must-read for anyone interested in the making and shaping of fashioned bodies." Louise Crewe, University of Nottingham
