The Empire of Fashion Dressing Modern Democracy |
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| Author:
| Lipovetsky, Gilles |
| Translator:
| Porter, Catherine |
| Foreword by:
| Sennett, Richard |
| Series title: | New French Thought Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-10262-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $67.99 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.
Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.