Fashion and Materialism

ISBN-13: 9781474407915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Ulrich Lehmann

Opis

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to give us a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he gives us insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Production Into Consumption: Materialism in Fashion; 2. Historical Materialism and Historicism: The Tiger’s Leap; 3. Sartorial Semantics: Le Mot dans la mode; 4. Markets for Modernity: Salons, Galleries and Fashion; 5. Structuralism and Materialism: The Language of a Pur(e)Suit; 6. Dialectics in C.C.P.; 7. Primary Material; Concluding Remark; Select bibliography; Index.