Anatomy of fashion : dressing the body from the Renaissance to today

Author

• Vincent, Susan J.

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Oxford: Berg, 2009

Language

English

ISBN

9781847888617

Series

Subject(s)

• BODY IMAGE
• CLOTHING AND DRESS--SYMBOLIC ASPECTS
• FASHION DESIGN
• HUMAN BODY--SOCIAL ASPECTS

Notes

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Abstract

Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has used garments to shape itself in the image of its own particular desires.

Taking different body parts in turn, The Anatomy of Fashion invites us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, the chapters both explore a different aesthetic and examine its wider, and often surprising, implications. In countless different ways, fashion is caught up in the larger picture of its chronological moment. Whether in the mechanisms of production, the politics of consumption, the construction of sexuality or gender, or the formation and reformation of manners and morals, fashion is there.

In its provocative conclusion The Anatomy of Fashion turns its attention to dress practices today. Reassembling the anatomical parts, the text places the contemporary body in the historical view and reveals the strangeness that lies at the heart of our own normality.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvi, 232 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prologue: Approaching the past --
Head and neck --
Breasts and waist --
Hips and bottom --
Genitals and legs --
Skin --
Epilogue: Fashioning the body today.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01485/21	746.92 Vin A	Online !	Available