The end of fashion : clothing and dress in the age of globalization / edited by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas.
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018Description: 256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350049123 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Fashion -- Social aspects | Fashion -- Technological innovations | Beauty and Fashion | Beauty and FashionDDC classification: 391 Summary: Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and designers are increasingly treated as 'artists', as fashion moves towards art and enters the gallery, museum, and retail space. This book is the first to fully explore the causes and implications of this shift, examining the impact of technological innovation, globalization, and the growth of the Internet. 'The End of Fashion' focuses on the ways in which our understanding of fashion and the fashion system have transformed as mass mediation and digitization continue to broaden the way that contemporary fashion is perceived and consumed.
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Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and designers are increasingly treated as 'artists', as fashion moves towards art and enters the gallery, museum, and retail space. This book is the first to fully explore the causes and implications of this shift, examining the impact of technological innovation, globalization, and the growth of the Internet. 'The End of Fashion' focuses on the ways in which our understanding of fashion and the fashion system have transformed as mass mediation and digitization continue to broaden the way that contemporary fashion is perceived and consumed.
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