Fashion as Communication
eBook - ePub

Fashion as Communication

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fashion as Communication

About this book

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from Barthes and Baudrillard to Marxist, psychoanalytic and feminist theory, Barnard addresses the ambivalent status of fashion in contemporary culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface to the second edition
  9. INTRODUCTION
  10. 1 ETYMOLOGIES AND DEFINITIONS OF FASHION AND CLOTHING
  11. 2 FASHION, CLOTHING, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
  12. 3 THE FUNCTIONS OF FASHION AND CLOTHING
  13. 4 FASHION, CLOTHING AND MEANING
  14. 5 FASHION, CLOTHING AND THE REPRODUCTION OF SOCIETY
  15. 6 FASHION, CLOTHING AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
  16. 7 FASHION, CLOTHING AND POSTMODERNITY
  17. 8 CONCLUSION
  18. Glossary
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index