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Title: Fashioning Identity
Condition: New
Subtitle: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion
Author: Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1350100668
EAN: 9781350100664
ISBN: 9781350100664
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Fashion & Design
Release Date: 01/11/2018
Description: We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays, and creating tension between personal statements and social performances. Fashioning Identity explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption,by examining a diverse series of case studies - from ninety-year old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases, the role of time, gender, age memory, novelty, copying, the body and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene. Offering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis’ seminal concept of ‘identity ambivalence’ in Fashion, Culture and Identity (1992), Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of ‘status ambivalence’, in which fashioning one’s own identity has become increasingly complicated.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 290g
Book Series: Dress and Fashion Research
Language: English
Release Year: 2018

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