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Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry
Entwistle Joanne
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Description for Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry
Paperback. This volume presents a cutting-edge examination of modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Accessible and highly engaging, Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and related disciplines. Editor(s): Entwistle, Joanne; Wissinger, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 bw illus. BIC Classification: AKTA; AKTH; JFCK; JFSJ; KNSX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 430.
The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global ... Read more
The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847881540
SKU
V9781847881540
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99-5
About Entwistle Joanne
Joanne Entwistle is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, UK. Elizabeth Wissinger is Associate Professor at the BMCC campus of the City University of New York, USA.
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