Fashioning Spain

Name: Fashioning Spain
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SKU: 9781350244580
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Fashioning Spain traces the cultural history of Spanish fashion throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, a time marked by profound social, political, and economic changes. From dictatorship to democracy, and into the digital era, it explores how fashion reflected and influenced societal shifts. The collection highlights how women asserted empowerment through their style, spotlighting figures like Balenciaga, female photographers challenging norms during Franco’s regime, and the political symbolism of the mantilla. Through diverse case studies—including films, comics from la Movida, Rosalía’s music videos, and museums—it reveals fashion as a site where tradition and modernity intersect, illuminating Spanish cultural life.
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Fashioning Spain suits readers interested in cultural history, fashion studies, and Spanish society, including scholars and students of arts and cultural studies, as well as those intrigued by the intersections of fashion with politics and identity.

Using a range of case studies and methodologies, this book explores connections between fashion and culture in 20th- to 21st-century Spain, and provides a model for understanding these connections worldwide.

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Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic upheaval. As Spain moved from dictatorship to democracy and, most recently, to the digital age, fashion has experienced seismic shifts.

The chapters in this collection reveal how women empowered themselves through fashion choices, detail Balenciaga’s international stardom, present female photographers challenging gender roles under Franco’s rule, and uncover the politicisation of the mantilla. In the visual culture of Spanish fashion, tradition and modernity coexist and compete, reflecting society’s changing affects.

Using a range of case studies and approaches, this collection explores fashion in films, comics from la Movida, Rosalía’s music videos, and both brick-and-mortar and virtual museums. It demonstrates that fashion is ripe with historical meaning, and offers unique insights into the many facets of Spanish cultural life.

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Fashioning Spain is praised for demonstrating the deep cultural significance of fashion in reflecting and shaping Spanish identity. Jo Labanyi of New York University highlights its illumination of Spain’s contributions to fashion design and entrepreneurship, with compelling illustrations. Rebecca Haidt from Ohio State University calls it an indispensable work that links fashion to political, economic, and social processes in modern Spain. José Colmeiro of the University of Auckland notes its valuable insights into gender, sexuality, class, and nationalism, establishing the book as a key reference in Spanish cultural studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350244580

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 December 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 33 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Francisco Fernández de Alba
Edited by Marcela T. Garcés

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 232.0mm

Height: 154.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Francisco Fernández de Alba is the A. Howard Meneely Professor of Hispanic Studies at Wheaton College, MA, USA, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish culture. He is the author of Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid (2020).

Marcela T. Garcés is Professor of Spanish at Siena College, NY, USA. She has authored several articles on contemporary Spanish film, fashion, and gastronomy. She is scriptwriter of the documentary film The Txoko Experience: The Secret Culinary Space of the Basques (2017).