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A Cultural History of Western Fashion: From Haute Couture to Virtual Couture

A Cultural History of Western Fashion: From Haute Couture to Virtual Couture

English, Bonnie
Munroe, Nazanin Hedayat

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ISBN10: 1350150894
ISBN13: 9781350150898
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Apr 21 2022
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.76
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it.

A Cultural History of Western Fashion guides you through the relationships between designer fashions, popular culture, big business, high-tech production, as well as traditional and social media. Exploring fashion's interdisciplinary nature, English and Munroe also highlight the parallel evolution of clothing design and the other visual arts over the last 150 years.

This new edition includes expanded coverage of the build up to the First World War and brings this classic text up to date, there's also a new chapter on 'Smart Textiles and Technology', exploring the work of Hussein Chalayan and Iris Van Herpen among others. There is also expanded coverage of the role of sustainability in the contemporary fashion industry, including biosynthetic textile production and Stella McCartney's use of vegan leather.

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