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A Cultural History of Western Fashion

From Haute Couture to Virtual Couture
By Professor Bonnie English and Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
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A Cultural History of Western Fashion explores the intricate connections between clothing and the societies that produce them, covering haute couture, ready-to-wear, popular culture, and media influences. This edition updates the text with expanded coverage of pre-World War One fashion history, smart textiles, technology, and sustainability, including discussions on designers like Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney.
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Ideal for students, researchers, and readers interested in fashion history, cultural studies, and the evolution of design within Western society.

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Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it.

A Cultural History of Western Fashion guides you through the relationships between haute couture and ready-to-wear designer fashions, popular culture, big business, and high-tech production, as well as traditional and social media. Exploring fashion’s interdisciplinary nature, English and Munroe also highlight the parallel evolution of clothing design and the other visual arts over the last 150 years.

This new edition includes expanded coverage of the build-up to the First World War and brings this classic text up to date. There is also a new chapter on smart textiles and technology, exploring the work of Hussein Chalayan and Iris Van Herpen, among others, and expanded coverage of the role of sustainability in the contemporary fashion industry, including biosynthetic textile production and Stella McCartney's use of vegan leather.

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Praised for its comprehensive and accessible approach, this edition addresses important contemporary issues such as digital technology, climate change, and economic shifts impacting fashion. It has been adopted as a key textbook in fashion schools and is appreciated by both general readers and scholars for its balanced mix of historical context and modern fashion theory.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350150898

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 February 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 100 bw illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 812g

Pages: 296

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Arts & Culture Nazanin Hedayat Munroe Non-Fiction Professor Bonnie English

About the Author

Bonnie English was Associate Professor in Art History & Theory at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is Director of Textiles and Assistant Professor of Business & Technology of Fashion at the NYC College of Technology - CUNY, where she lectures on textiles, historic dress, and contemporary issues in the fashion industry. A former Educator at the Metropolitan Museum, Nazanin is also a nationally acclaimed textile artist.

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