The Fashion Reader: Second Edition - Softcover

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9781847885890: The Fashion Reader: Second Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847885896 ISBN 13: 9781847885890

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2011

This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources -- books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews, and exhibition catalogs. Each section is specially introduced and concludes with guides to further reading. This new edition has been revised and expanded, with new sections on psychology, sustainability, communications, design, ethnicity, merchandising, and the fashion business. It also includes new essays covering fashion history from Antiquity to the Renaissance and provides twice as many illustrations. Supported by Guides to Further Reading and Q&A's, The Fashion Reader, Second Edition is the ideal introductory text for all students of fashion.

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About the Author:

Linda Welters is Professor of Fashion Merchandising and Design at the University of Rhode Island. Former editor-in-chief of Dress, the scholarly journal of the Costume Society of America, she has authored and edited numerous works. Abby Lillethun is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University.

Review:

Historically informed and critically integrated, The Fashion Reader sheds fresh light on key concepts in fashion studies: time, space/place, identity, and globalization. * Susan Kaiser, University of California at Davis (from 1st edition) * A panoramic collection of current and classic texts and an excellent introduction to fashion . . . from history, cultural identity, gender, through to the business, economics, manufacturing and marketing of fashion. * Pammi Sinha, University of Manchester (from 1st edition) * Presenting rich, diverse, and significant essays, The Fashion Reader will contribute to and expand the study of fashion. * Theresa M. Winge, Indiana University (from 1st edition) * An invaluable resource that covers Fashion Studies' range of disciplines and approaches, The Fashion Reader will invigorate the growing field of fashion. * Patrik Aspers, Stockholm University (from 1st edition) * This is a useful starting point that demonstrates the richness of the subject, indicates the diverse themes to be explored, and the variety of approaches it is possible to take in examining both contemporary and historical fashion. * Costume, Vol 42, 2008 (from 1st edition) * This wide-ranging volume engages with issues of fashion, broadly conceived, from the historical through the theoretical to politics and business. -- Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta * Winterthur Portfolio *

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