Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York - Hardcover

Buckley, Cheryl; Clark, Hazel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847888275 ISBN 13: 9781847888273

Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2015

Synopsis

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau's notion of `the everyday' as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shaped by everyday life. Looking historically for the imprint of fashion within everyday routines such as going to work or shopping, or in leisure activities like dancing, the book identifies the `fashion system of the ordinary', in which clothing has a distinct role in the making of self and identity. Exploring the period from 1890 to 2010, the study is located in London and New York, cities that emerged as as socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, as well as increasingly fashionable. The book re-focuses fashion discourse away from well-trodden, power-laden dynamics, towards a re-evaluation of time, memory, and above all history, and their relationship to fashion and everyday life. The importance of place and space - and issues of gender, race and social class - provides the broader framework, revealing fashion as both routine and exceptional, and as an increasingly significant part of urban life. By focusing on key themes such as clothing the city, what is worn on the streets, the imagining and performing of multiple identities by dressing up and down, going out, and showing off, Fashion and Everyday Life makes a unique contribution to the literature of fashion studies, fashion history, cultural studies, and beyond.

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Review

"I loved this book. For a reader fascinated with the sociological and political influences on clothing design and dress choices, this book is a great read! For a professor teaching historic costume or fashion theory, this book is an excellent supplement to the greater story of fashion history." - Fashion, Society & Popular Culture

About the Author

Cheryl Buckley is Professor of Fashion and Design History at the Unviersity of Brighton, UK Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and Research Chair of Fashion, at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847888275
• ISBN 13: 9781847888273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328