Kimono - Fashioning Culture

Informationen zum Autor Liza Dalby Klappentext Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specialising in Japanese culture and the only Westerner to have become a geisha. She is the author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and consulted on Steven Spielberg's film of Memoirs of a Geisha . She lives in California with her husband and three children. Zusammenfassung The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese fashion and design taste but also reveals something of the soul of Japan, and is seen by many as a symbol for all that is Japanese - simplicity, elegance and beauty.

Product details

• Authors: Liza Dalby, Dalby Liza
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780099428992
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942899-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, Fashion & society, History: specific events and topics, Fashion and textile design, Cultural studies: dress and society