Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses

ISBN-13: 9781138547599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 410 str.

John Potvin

Opis

The first monograph to do so, Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses examines the visual, material, phenomenological, spatial, discursive, and economic culture of Giorgio Armani and his lifestyle empire. The book explores how Armani's designs and decisions provide a surface on and through which to mediate acts of translation: from East to West; from fashion to art; from one gendered identity to another; and from two-dimensional image to three-dimensional object.

Recenzje

'Illustrated with some numerous black-and-white images, this serious book makes a genuine contribution to understanding a designer whose work can tell us much about ourselves and the times in which we live.' Costume

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Made in Milan; Armani/mystique: building empire; Armani/America: haptic pleasures; Armani/industry: fashioning finance; Armani/menswear: tailoring masculinity; Armani/womenswear: hybrid modernity; Armani/space: boutique cultures; Armani/theatre: in the ’church of Armani'; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

John Potvin is Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montreal. In addition to several essays and articles, he is the author of Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1880-1914 (2008). He is also the editor of The Places and Spaces of Fashion (2009) and co-editor of Material Cultures, 1740-1920: The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting (2009) and Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity (2010).