Changing Fashion - A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning

Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, amongst others. Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a wide range of contemporary and historical case material which provides practical examples of trend analysis and change, from the art deco textile designs of Sonia Delaunay to the chameleonic shifts in Bob Dylan''s appearance over time. Key issues in fashion and identity, such as race, gender and consumption are examined from different disciplinary angles to provide a critical overview of the field. Changing Fashion provides a concise guide to the main theories across disciplines that explain how and why media, clothing styles, and cultural practices fall in and out of fashion.>

About the author

Annette Lynch is the Director of the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the founding director of the UNI Center for Violence Prevention.Annette Lynch is Associate Professor in the Textile and Apparel Program, University of Northern Iowa.

Mitchell Strauss is Professor of Textiles and Apparel at the University of Northern Iowa.

Product details

• Authors: Annette Lynch, Lynch Annette, Mitchell Strauss, Mitchell D. Strauss, Strauss Mitchell
• Assisted by: Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2007
• EAN: 9781845203894
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-389-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Dress, Body, Culture (Hardcove; Dress, Body, Culture (Hardcove; Dress, Body, Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Fashion & society, Fashion & textiles: design, Fashion & beauty industries, Fashion and textile design, Hospitality and service industries, Cultural studies: dress and society