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  • - Popular Fashion, Music and Gender
    by Rachel Lifter
    £98.99

    Subcultures meet the mainstream in modern indie music & popular fashion

  • - Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora
    by Cheryl Sim
    £34.99

  • - Fashion, Media and Society
     
    £35.99

    For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident young fashion consumers, who are proving to be an important market for fashion.This book explores South Asian youth cultures and fashion across the countries of this region and their diasporas from a transnational perspective. Through visual and textual analysis of film, photography and digital cultures, as well as ethnographic fieldwork, the expert contributors look at how gender, sexuality, class, the media and faith intersect with and style youth cultures. By establishing the heterogeneous nature of South Asia and its youth cultures, they also dismantle grand western narratives that tend to understand the region's diverse cultural modernity through the lens of homogeneity.

  • - Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925
     
    £124.49

  • - Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith
     
    £25.49

    Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world. This book examines the growing number of women who, for reasons of religion, faith or personal preference, decide to cover their bodies and dress in a way that satisfies their spiritual and stylistic requirements.

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    - A Guide to Key Theorists
     
    £19.49

    Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.

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    - Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities
    by University of the Arts London, UK) Almila & Anna-Mari (London College of Fashion
    £14.49 - 35.99

  • - Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925
    by DE YOUNG JUSTINE
    £26.49

    Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and image. Fashion in European Art explores representations of fashion and dress, revealing how artists and their sitters engaged with the fashion and culture of their times. Its essays explore the politics of dress, its inspirations and the reactions it provoked, as well as the many meanings of fashion in European art, to show its importance in understanding modernity itself.

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