The Geographies of Fashion
eBook - PDF

The Geographies of Fashion

Consumption, Space, and Value

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Geographies of Fashion

Consumption, Space, and Value

About this book

Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the first in-depth study of fashion economies from a geographer's perspective, exploring the complex relationship between our attachment to the clothes we own, love and desire, and their geographic and economic ties. How far does a garment physically travel from factory to wardrobe? How do clothes come to have social or economic value and who or what creates it? What are the geographies of fashion and how do they interact with one another? This ground-breaking book powerfully reframes fashion spaces, from the body to the city, digital or virtual space to material production, positioning fashion at the centre of contemporary culture and collective identities. Combining contemporary theoretical approaches with a cutting-edge analysis of international fashion brands and institutions including Maison Martin Margiela, Zara, Louis Vuitton, ASOS and Savile Row, The Geographies of Fashion is essential reading for students of fashion, geography and related disciplines including sociology, architecture and design.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781472589552
eBook ISBN
9781472589576
Edition
1
Topic
Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1 Figuring out the geographies of fashion
  6. 2 Fashioning the global city: architecture and the building of fashion space
  7. 3 Fast fashion, global spaces, and bio-commodification
  8. 4 Slow fashion and investment consumption
  9. 5 Luxury: flagships, singularity, and the art of value creation
  10. 6 Possessed: evocative objects, meaning, and materiality
  11. 7 Soft: ware: wear: where—virtual fashion spaces in the digital age
  12. References
  13. Index