"Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis" "Bruzzi, Stella"

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures , this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing different aspects of fashion culture:

Fashion Cultures Revisited explores every facet of contemporary fashion culture and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and shopping .Consequently it is an ideal companion to those interested in fashion studies, cultural studies, art, film, fashion history, sociology and gender studies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of figures (p. xi)
• List of contributors (p. xiv)
• Acknowledgements (p. xxi)
• Introduction: the Changed Fashion Landscape of the New Millennium (p. 1)
• Part 1 Shopping, Spaces and globalisation (p. 9)
• 1 A New World Order? Fashion and its Capitals in the Twenty-First Century (p. 11)
• 2 Branding Brazilian Fashion: Global Visibility and Intercultural Perspectives (p. 31)
• 3 India and Fashion's New Geography (p. 43)
• 4 A New Fashion Capital: Shanghai (p. 55)
• 5 'Sydney Style': Camping it Up in the Emerald City (p. 64)
• Part 2 Changing imagery, changing media (p. 75)
• 6 Yesterday's Emblems and Tomorrow's Commodities: the Return Of the Repressed In Fashion Imagery Today (p. 77)
• 7 the Digital Fashion Film (p. 103)
• 8 Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-Portraits (p. 112)
• 9 Styling the Street - Fashion Performance, Stardom and Neo-Dandyism In Street Style Blogs (p. 128)
• 10 Exhibition-Making: A Conversation (p. 138)
• Part 3 Altered landscapes, new modes of production (p. 145)
• 11 Fashion Photography: Communication, Criticism and Curat10n From 1975 (p. 147)
• 12 Escaping To Reality: Fashion Photography In the 1990 (p. 161)
• Foreword
• 13 Fashioning Indie: the Consecration Of A Subculture and the Emergence Of 'Stylish' Femininity (p. 175)
• 14 'Capitalism's Favourite Child': the Production Of Fashion (p. 186)
• 15 Tailoring and tweed: mapping the spaces of 'Slow Fashion' (p. 200)
• Part 4 Icons and their legacies (p. 215)
• 16 The 'Fashion Arts': Jean Michel Frank, Elsa Schiaparelli and the Interwar Aesthetic Project (p. 217)
• 17 The Pink Suit (p. 234)
• 18 Fab Lesbianism and Family Values: Costuming Of Lesbian Identities In the L Word and the Kids Are Alright (p. 249)
• 19 Fashion As Mythology: Considering the Legacy Of Alexander Mcqueen (p. 261)
• Part 5 Contestation, compliance, feminisms (p. 273)
• 20 Fashion, Feminism and the Neo-Feivjinist Ideal: From Coco Chanel To Jennifer Lopez (p. 275)
• 21 New Clothes, New Faces, New Bodies: Cosmetic Surgery and Fashion (p. 287)
• 22 Female slenderness and the case of perverse compliant deception - or why size matters (p. 296)
• 23 Hijab Stories: Choice, Politics, Fashion (p. 305)
• 24 Fashion, Fears and Ageing: Contradictions and Complexity Across the Media (p. 322)
• Part 6 Making masculinities (p. 339)
• 25 Heroes and Villains: When Men Wear Makeup (p. 341)
• 26 the Italian Job: Football, Fashion and That Sarong (p. 352)
• Foreword
• 27 Vampire Dandies: Fashionable Masculine Identities and Style In Popular Culture (p. 366)
• 28 'I'm Saving the World, I Need A Decent Shirt': Masculinity and Sexuality In the New Doctor Who (p. 377)
• 29 Suiting Up and Stripping Off: the Male Makeover (p. 390)
• Index (p. 401)