Fashion as communication

Contributor(s):

Barnard, Malcolm [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2002Edition: 2ª edDescription: xiii, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN:

9780415260183

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Contiene glosario, bibliografía e índice

Summary: 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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Book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	GT511 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B04568

Contiene glosario, bibliografía e índice

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. ; ;