Colors in fashion

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Faiers, Jonathan
• Bulgarella, Mary Westerman

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Language

English

ISBN

9781474273701

Series

Subject(s)

• COLOR IN CLOTHING
• COLORS--PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Notes

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Abstract

Color speaks a powerful cultural language, conveying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have revealed how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking compilation is the first to investigate how color in fashionable and ceremonial dress has played a significant social role, indicating acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion.

From white used for pioneering feminism to the penchant for black in post-war France, and from mystical scarlet broadcloth to the horrors of arsenic-laden green fashion, this publication demonstrates that color in dress is never straightforward and is as mutable, nuanced, and varied as color itself. Divided into four thematic parts – solidarity, power, innovation, and desire – each section highlights the often violent, emotional histories of color in dress across geographical, temporal and cultural boundaries. Underlying today’s relaxed attitude to color lies a chromatic complexity that speaks of wars, migrations and economics.

While acknowledging the importance that technology has played in the development of new dyes, the chapters explore color as a catalyst for technical innovation that continues to inspire designers, artists, and performers. Bringing together cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars, it is essential reading for academics of fashion, textiles, design, cultural studies and art history.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xviii, 209 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Front matter
Introduction
Part 1: Color and Solidarity
Part 2: Color and Power
Part 3: Color and Innovation
Part 4: Color and Desire

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