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Author : Sharon Sadako Takeda
Release : 2012
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fashioning Fashion : European Dress in Detail 1700-1915 by : Sharon Sadako Takeda
Download or read book Fashioning Fashion : European Dress in Detail 1700-1915 written by Sharon Sadako Takeda. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Llewella Chapman
Release : 2021-09-23
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fashioning James Bond by : Llewella Chapman
Download or read book Fashioning James Bond written by Llewella Chapman. This book was released on 2021-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'. Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.
Author : Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Release : 2017-02-09
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fashioning Identity by : Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Download or read book Fashioning Identity written by Maria Mackinney-Valentin. This book was released on 2017-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays, and creating tension between personal statements and social performances. Fashioning Identity explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption,by examining a diverse series of case studies - from ninety-year old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases, the role of time, gender, age memory, novelty, copying, the body and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene. Offering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis' seminal concept of 'identity ambivalence' in Fashion, Culture and Identity (1992), Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of 'status ambivalence', in which fashioning one's own identity has become increasingly complicated.
Author : Sandy Black
Release : 2006
Genre : Costume design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fashioning Fabrics by : Sandy Black
Download or read book Fashioning Fabrics written by Sandy Black. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the variety of ways in which textiles are used by fashion designers, this book explores the experimental and the beautiful in textile and fashion design.
Author : Ingrid Loschek
Release : 2009-08-01
Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis When Clothes Become Fashion by : Ingrid Loschek
Download or read book When Clothes Become Fashion written by Ingrid Loschek. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the world of fashion - its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions.
