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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories -- Introduction -- 1 Explaining it Away -- 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction -- 3 Adorned in Zeitgeist -- 4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture -- PART TWO What fashion is and is not -- Introduction -- 5 Fashion -- 6 Art -- 7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation -- 8 Fashion -- 9 Extract from Fashion and Anti Fashion -- PART THREE Fashion and (the) image -- Introduction -- 10 Fashion Photography -- 11 Going Beyond 'The Fashion System': A Critique -- 12 'Doing Fashion Photographs' -- 13 Introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith -- PART FOUR Sustainable fashion -- Introduction -- 14 Consumers' Perceptions of 'Green': Why and How Consumers Use Eco-Fashion and Green Beauty Products -- 15 Fashion, Needs and Consumption -- 16 Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes we Wear -- PART FIVE Fashion as communication -- Introduction -- 17 Social Life as a Sign System -- 18 The Analysis of the Rhetorical System -- 19 Do Clothes Speak? What Makes them Fashion? -- 20 When the Meaning is not a Message: A Critique of the Consumption as Communication Thesis -- 21 "Fashion as Communication Revisited" -- PART SIX Fashion: identity and difference -- Introduction -- 22 Express Yourself: The Politics of Dressing Up -- 23 Objectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel -- 24 'Power Dressing' and the Construction of the Career Woman -- 25 From Gay to Queer - Or, Wasn't Fashion Always Already a Very Queer Thing? -- 26 Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes -- 27 Popular Fashion and Working-Class Affluence -- 28 Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection -- 29 Great Aspirations: Hip Hop and Fashion Dress for Excess and Success.

"Fashion is both big business and big news. From models' eating disorders and sweated labour to the glamour of a new season's trends, statements and arguments about fashion and the fashion industry can be found in every newspaper, consumer website and fashion blog. Books which define, analyse and explain the nature, production and consumption of fashion in terms of one theory or another abound. But what are the theories which run through all of these analyses, and how can they help us to understand fashion and clothing? Fashion Theory: An Introduction explains some of the most influential and important theories on fashion: it brings to light the presuppositions involved in the things we think and say about fashion every day and shows how they depend on those theories. This clear, accessible introduction contextualises and critiques the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used different theoretical approaches to explain - and sometimes to explain away - the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of fashion. Through engaging examples and case studies, this book explores: - fashion and clothing in history - fashion and clothing as communication - fashion as identity - fashion, clothing and the body - production and consumption - fashion, globalization and colonialism - fashion, fetish and the erotic This book will be an invaluable resource for students of cultural studies, sociology, gender studies, fashion design, textiles, or the advertising, marketing and manufacturing of clothes"--