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Klappentext Examines how aesthetic products are defined, distributed and valued. This book focuses on the work of some of the market agents, particularly model agents or 'bookers' and fashion buyers, shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic marketplaces. Zusammenfassung Examines how aesthetic products are defined, distributed and valued. This book focuses on the work of some of the market agents, particularly model agents or 'bookers' and fashion buyers, shaping the aesthetics inside their markets. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive features of aesthetic marketplaces.
List of contents
1. IntroductionPart One: Understanding aesthetic markets2. An aesthetic marketplace: assembling 'economy' and 'culture'3. The aesthetic economy: the production of value in the field of fashion modellingPart Two: Fashion buying: a case study4. A brief introduction to the fieldwork5. Understanding high fashion clothing: retailing and buying in the UK6. The materialities of fashion and fashion knowledge7. Tacit aesthetic knowledge: the fashion sense and sensibility of fashion buyers8. Examining the interfaces: fashion buying encounters and the relationships between products, buyers, suppliers and customers
Report
'This is a major book and a highly significant contribution to our understanding of how specific features of the fashion economy operate. Drawing on fascinating field work in a well-known department store and also in fashion model agencies, Entwistle uses the new sociology of markets and of actor networks to analyse the calculative practices which underpin the production of fashion worlds and their objects. This book has great originality and depth, and will be used across a range of academic disciplines.'Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London
