{"product_id":"fashion-aesthetics-and-ethics-9781350198524","title":"Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often discussed in the context of abstract phenomena such as modernity and capitalism, or identity issues such as sexuality, class, and gender. The essays in this volume strive instead to show how the realities of the global fashion industry have important and pertinent aesthetic and ethical consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection provides critical and philosophical analysis of the interplay of aesthetics and ethics within the global fashion industry. Characterised by an increasingly fast-spinning production, the industry is highly exploitative in terms of the environment and labour force: underpaid textile workers, retailers working under brutal competition from mass-merchandise discounters, young designers, seamstresses and curators often working for free, and a vast body of aspiring models. In addition, fashion-related aesthetic ideals are becoming more influential than ever in directing consumers in their social and personal identification processes and bodily practices, with sometimes fatal consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCovering a wide range of subjects such as fashion’s highly problematic production and consumption practices, the possibility of producing and consuming fashion ethically, and fashion’s intimate connection with nature and technology, \u003ci\u003eFashion Aesthetics and Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the powerful aesthetical presence of fashion in relation to its ethical premises and often problematic outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470592917740,"sku":"9781350198524","price":62.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350198524-fashion-aesthetics-and-ethics.jpg?v=1775222287","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fashion-aesthetics-and-ethics-9781350198524","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}