FASHION AND EVERYDAY LIFE LONDON AND NEW YORK
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- Author: HAZEL CLARK
- ISBN: 9781847888266
- Availability: In Stock
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Taking cultural theorist Michel de
Certeau's notion of 'the everyday' as a critical starting point, this book
considers how fashion shapes and is shaped by everyday life. Looking
historically for the imprint of fashion within everyday routines such as going
to work or shopping, or in leisure activities like dancing, the book identifies
the 'fashion system of the ordinary', in which clothing has a distinct role in
the making of self and identity.
Exploring the period from 1890 to 2010, the study
is located in London and New York, cities that emerged as as socially,
ethnically and culturally diverse, as well as increasingly fashionable. The
book re-focuses fashion discourse away from well-trodden, power-laden dynamics,
towards a re-evaluation of time, memory, and above all history, and their
relationship to fashion and everyday life. The importance of place and space -
and issues of gender, race and social class - provides the broader framework,
revealing fashion as both routine and exceptional, and as an increasingly
significant part of urban life.