Fashion in popular culture : literature, media and contemporary studies /
This book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, including the role fashion plays in subcultures. Fashion is a phenomenon that exemplifies diversity across cultures. It is dependent on time and place and commonly defined as the prevailing style at a given moment or place. Fashion is codifi...
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| Main Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK :
Intellect,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, including the role fashion plays in subcultures. Fashion is a phenomenon that exemplifies diversity across cultures. It is dependent on time and place and commonly defined as the prevailing style at a given moment or place. Fashion is codified and endowed with social meanings about gender, sexuality and identity. Dress frames the body. It expresses who we are and who we are not as a means of expressing identity and a way of interacting and belonging to a particular culture. |
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| Item Description: | "Drexel University, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783200474 1783200472 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
