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Fashioning Models

Fashioning Models

Entwistle, Joanne

Paperback

Business GeneralFashion & AccessoriesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1847881548
ISBN13: 9781847881540
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: Dec 6 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal specifically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face. It also considers how models glamorize consumption through everyday activities, and neoliberal labour forms via reality TV.

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