FASH 320: Twenty-First Century Fashion

A decade-by-decade history of fashion as a lively and dynamic manifestation of twentieth-century culture. Covers the chronological changes in womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, and looks at the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change,at the relationship between fashion and the visual, applied, and performing arts, the intertwined relationship between fashion and popular culture, the impact of new materials and technology, and the growing globalization of style.
(Also in print: GT596 .C65 2015)

Outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case studies on key designers, styles, movements and events.

Feature concise essays with profiles of the key designers, break-out stories about the most avant-garde projects and interviews with the leading lights of the art-fashion crossover phenomenon.

Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of men’s fashion through the lens of shifting masculinities, examining how its increasing diversity has created new ways for men to explore and express their identities.