Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers
Written by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Editor
Narrated by Beth Richmond
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About this audiobook
Each essay in Producing Fashion is presented in full and has been selected from the original print edition. The essays answer the following questions and more:
How has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in high-tech Lycra fabrics, while they wax nostalgic for quaint, old-fashioned Victorian cottages?
Fashion icons and failures have long captivated the general public, but few scholars have examined the historical role of business and commerce in creating the international market for style goods. Producing Fashion is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that shows how economic institutions in Europe and North America laid the foundation for the global fashion system and sustained it commercially through the mechanisms of advertising, licensing, marketing, publishing, and retailing.
The collection reveals how public and private institutions worked to shape fashion, style, and taste with varying degrees of success. Nine expert contributors draw on original research and fresh insight into the producers of fashion—advertising agents, architects, corporate executives, department stores, designers, editors, government officials, hairdressers, haute couturiers, and Web retailers—in their bid for influence, acclaim, and shoppers' dollars.
Producing Fashion looks to the past, revealing the rationale behind style choices, while explaining how the interplay of custom, invented traditions, and sales imperatives continue to drive innovation in the fashion industries.
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Reviews for Producing Fashion
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It took me a long time to go through this book, interesting at times but for the most part boring and academic. The way the subjects, that vary from the both of fashion, to girdles, to hair styles and to homes (?), are treated is not compact and uniform but the author ficuses at times way to long on some issues and goes by too fast on other interesting ones. To me, being generous, it’s a 2.75 star read.