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While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion on its own hybrid, inflected, and heterogeneous terms. Celebrating the plurality and audacity inherent in its subject, Fashion Statements presents insightful, playful, and accessible essays on the philosophy of fashion.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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New Look
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Front Matter
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"To think about 'what we wear' may seem to be a waste of time to some, yet it cannot be denied that we seem to live in an epoch where living is more and more defined by the fashionable. Fashion Statements offers the reader a number of innovative and thoughtful investigations and provocations, stimulating a re-thinking of what exactly the 'fashionable' means. The diverse and talented authors of these writings shed a fascinating variety of lights upon the subject - Foucault and Westwood, denim and despair, the glory and the subjection of the naked and the dressed, just to mention a few. Open up this book to any page and you will find an original reflection on fashion and its power to signify, obfuscate, imprison, swindle, protect, seduce, delight, and foil. These essays are testimony to the fact that if philosophers, critics, and cultural observateurs are to truly live up to their respective tasks, not one of them could keep their title without examining the question of the fashionable. Fashion Statements shows that philosophy can and should do a thinking of the trend 'itself'. Herein is found more than a few replies to the question Quentin Crisp put to Calvin Klein: 'What does it all mean?'" - Kevin R. MacDonald, Professor of Philosophy, The Fashion Institute of Technology
About the authors
Brian Seitz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Babson College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fashion Statements
Book Subtitle: On Style, Appearance, and Reality
Editors: Ron Scapp, Brian Seitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115408
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10542-3Published: 19 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28987-5Published: 09 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11540-8Published: 20 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 224
Topics: Gender Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, general