Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 188 pages)
Edition:
English edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9780857854148
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0857854143
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9780857851482
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0857851489
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9780857851482
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9781845204723
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9781845204730
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1845204735
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1845204727
Series Statement:
Dress, body, culture
Content:
Introduction -- An aesthetic marketplace : assembling "economy" and "culture" -- The aesthetic economy : the production of value in the field of fashion modelling -- Introduction to case study -- Understanding high fashion : retailing and buying -- Markets in motion : fashion temporality and materiality -- Tacit aesthetic knowledge : the fashion sense and sensibility of fashion buyers -- The cultural economy of fashion buying.
Content:
Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and sold? Since there are few studies that actually examine the work that goes on inside the world of fashion, we know little about these processes. This book addresses this gap in our knowledge by exami
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845204730
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Entwistle, Joanne Aesthetic economy of fashion Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780857854148
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