Fashion Theory: A Reader

by Malcolm Barnard

From its beginnings in the fifteenth century, intensified interest in fashion and the study of fashion over the last thirty years has led to a vast and varied literature on the subject.

This collection of essays surveys and contextualizes the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used a variety of theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of fashion. Themes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415413400
• ISBN13: 9780415413404
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 2.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 9.7"