FASH 130: The Meaning of Dress

This book provides insight into the examines social, behavioral, and cultural aspects in fashion and dress based on current research and practices. It includes theoretical perspectives of intersectional identities in global landscapes, global fashion and dress, and efforts to decentralize and decolonize the normative Eurocentric approach to fashion and dress studies.

Highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent.
Also in Print: HB841 .A37 2019

In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body, fashion, sex, and power, with an emphasis on the role of dress in both reinforcing and challenging social norms.

With essays by leading experts in fashion, photography, anthropology, and sociology, 'Fashion tribes' offers a broad view of world dress and shows the power that clothing can hold.

An encyclopaedic selection of 111 garments, footwear, and accessories - from humble masterpieces to high fashion - that have had a strong impact on society in the 20th and 21st centuries and continue to hold currency today.

Essays by critic Roland Barthes that lay down the foundation for a structural and semiological analysis of clothing and jewellery.

From using makeup as a means to challenge gender, to the link between hairstyling and community-building, or the rituals of skincare as a form of self-care, we are rediscovering beauty as a way of defining who we are and what we value. This book explores this shift from historical, scientific and journalistic perspectives.

The authors of this book conducted oral histories with 24 brands with questions ranging from their own personal histories to how and why they started the brand.