Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion - Brossura

Arntzen, Mari Grinde

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ISBN 10: 1780234392 ISBN 13: 9781780234397

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 2015

Riassunto

As Oscar Wilde once wrote, &;Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.&; And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In this book, Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is&;how can fashion simultaneously attract us to its glamour and repel us with its superficiality and how being called &;fashionable&; can be at once a compliment and an insult.

Arntzen guides us through the major figures and brands of today&;s fashion industry, showing how they shape us and in turn why we love to be shaped by them. She examines both everyday, affordable &;fast fashion&; brands, as well as the luxury market, to show how fashion commands a powerful influence on every socioeconomic level of our society. Stepping into our closets with us, she thinks about what happens when we get dressed: why fashion can make us feel powerful, beautiful, and original at the same time that it forces us into conformity. Stripping off the layers of the world&;s fifth largest industry, garment by garment, she holds fashion up as a phenomenon, business, and art, exploring the questions it forces us to ask about the body, image, celebrity, and self-obsession.

Ultimately, Arntzen asks the most direct question: what is fashion? How has it taken such a powerful hold on the world, forever propelling us toward its concepts of beauty? 

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Informazioni sull'autore

Mari Grinde Arntzen is a journalist who writes for Aftenposten and Dagens Næringsliv and teaches at the School of Fashion Industry in Oslo, Norway. Kerri Pierce is a translator specializing in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and German. Her translations include Mela Hartwig’s Am I a Redundant Human Being?; Kjersti Skomsvold’s The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am; and Lars Svendsen’s A Philosophy of Freedom, the last also published by Reaktion Books. She lives in Pittsford, New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1780234392
• ISBN 13: 9781780234397
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 127
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile