{"title":"Series: Dress and Fashion Research","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDress and Fashion Research\u003c\/strong\u003e series offers an insightful exploration into the cultural, historical, and psychological dimensions of dress and style. Readers can expect thoughtful analyses that intersect with philosophy, sociology, and history, revealing how fashion shapes and reflects identity, society, and human behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a multidisciplinary approach, this collection engages with themes from aesthetics to social dynamics, appealing to those interested in both theoretical perspectives and practical implications within the realms of fashion and beyond. It is an essential resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of dress as a form of communication and cultural expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fashioning-identity-by-professor-maria-mackinney-valentin-9781350100664","title":"Fashioning Identity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratised through high-low collaborations, social media, and real-time fashion mediation. This complicates the basic dynamic of identity displays and creates tension between personal statements and social performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashioning Identity\u003c\/i\u003e explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption by examining a diverse series of case studies—from ninety-year-old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases, the role of time, gender, age, memory, novelty, copying, the body, and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis’ seminal concept of ‘identity ambivalence’ in \u003ci\u003eFashion, Culture and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of ‘status ambivalence’, in which fashioning one’s own identity has become increasingly complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463026950380,"sku":"9781350100664","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350100664-fashioning-identity.jpg?v=1775026311"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-dress-and-fashion-research.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}