The Fashion Questionnaire
Title | The Fashion Questionnaire PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Assouline Books & Gifts |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fashion |
ISBN | 9782759402717 |
Fashion questionnaires answered by Thom Browne, Ennio Capasa, Pierre Cardin, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Roberto Cavalli, Alber Elbaz, Diane von Furstenberg, John Galliano, Carolina Herrera, Tommy Hilfiger, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Karl Lagerfeld, Catherine Malandrino, Nicole Miller, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Rucci, Sonia Rykiel, Olivier Theyskens, Isabel Toledo, and Valentino.
The World of Fashion
Title | The World of Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Diamond |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 721 |
Release | 2013-01-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1609015274 |
The World of Fashion, 5th Edition is the essential resource for students seeking to understand the fashion industry. Starting with an introduction to fashion's history and its evolving role within the global marketplace, this book provides in-depth coverage of the design, manufacturing and merchandising segments of the fashion industry.
Doing Research in Fashion and Dress
Title | Doing Research in Fashion and Dress PDF eBook |
Author | Yuniya Kawamura |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2020-01-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 135008980X |
Whether you're investigating fashion as a material object, an abstract idea, a social phenomenon, or a commercial system, qualitative techniques can further your understanding of almost any research topic. Doing Research in Fashion and Dress begins by guiding you through a brief history of fashion studies, and the debates surrounding it, before introducing key qualitative methodological approaches, including ethnography, semiology, and object-based research. Detailed case studies demonstrate how each methodology is used in practice. These case studies include Japanese subcultures, fashion photography blogs and semiotic studies of fashion magazine shoots and advertisements. This second edition also features a new chapter on internet sources and online ethnography, reflecting the adoption of social media tools not only by industry practitioners but also by academics. By contextualizing history, theory and practice Doing Research in Fashion and Dress offers: -A systematic examination of qualitative research methods in fashion studies in social sciences. -A practical guide for anyone wishing to conduct fashion research in academia or in the business world. -An accessible grounding in contemporary fashion studies literature.
Fashion
Title | Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Specter |
Publisher | Editions Assouline |
Pages | 93 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fashion |
ISBN | 9782759401543 |
Le Légendaire Questionnaire de Proust est ici adapté à l'univers de la mode comme révélateur de style. Plusieurs grands noms, parmi les plus influents du monde de la mode, se sont prêtés à ce jeu des questions et révèlent ainsi leur vision et sources d'inspiration. Le Fashion Questionnaire permet de mieux comprendre l'influence de ces icônes de la création dans notre culture contemporaine. Des questionnaires vierges complètent ce recueil pour permettre à chacun de cerner les origines de son propre style et celui de son entourage.
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
Title | Fashion and Its Social Agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Crane |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2012-06-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226924831 |
It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed. Crane compares nineteenth-century societies—France and the United States—where social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode societies, clothes inhibit as well as facilitate communication between highly fragmented social groups. Crane extends her comparison by showing how nineteenth-century French designers created fashions that suited lifestyles of Paris elites but that were also widely adopted outside France. By contrast, today's designers operate in a global marketplace, shaped by television, film, and popular music. No longer confined to elites, trendsetters are drawn from many social groups, and most trends have short trajectories. To assess the impact of fashion on women, Crane uses voices of college-aged and middle-aged women who took part in focus groups. These discussions yield fascinating information about women's perceptions of female identity and sexuality in the fashion industry. An absorbing work, Fashion and Its Social Agendas stands out as a critical study of gender, fashion, and consumer culture. "Why do people dress the way they do? How does clothing contribute to a person's identity as a man or woman, as a white-collar professional or blue-collar worker, as a preppie, yuppie, or nerd? How is it that dress no longer denotes social class so much as lifestyle? . . . Intelligent and informative, [this] book proposes thoughtful answers to some of these questions."-Library Journal
Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education
Title | Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Leal Filho |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2016-11-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3319478680 |
This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of what universities around the world are doing to implement sustainable development (i.e. via curriculum innovation, research, activities, or practical projects) and how their efforts relate to education for sustainable development at the university level. The Handbook gathers a wealth of information, ideas, best practices and lessons learned in the context of executing concrete projects, and assesses methodological approaches to integrating the topic of sustainable development in university curricula. Lastly, it documents and disseminates the veritable treasure trove of practical experience currently available on sustainability in higher education.
Women in Clothes
Title | Women in Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Heti |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 2014-09-04 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0698189825 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives. It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think more deeply about their personal style. Writers, activists, and artists including Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Kalpona Akter, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Tavi Gevinson, Miranda July, Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Molly Ringwald answered these questions with photographs, interviews, personal testimonies, and illustrations. Even our most basic clothing choices can give us confidence, show the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with our friends, or function as armor or disguise. They are the tools we use to reinvent ourselves and to transform how others see us. Women in Clothes embraces the complexity of women’s style decisions, revealing the sometimes funny, sometimes strange, always thoughtful impulses that influence our daily ritual of getting dressed.