Fashioning Identity: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion

by Maria Mackinney-Valentin

Book Overview

We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet, today, fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations, social media and real-time fashion mediation, complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays, and creating tension between personal statements and social performances.

Fashioning Identity explores how this tension...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350100668
• ISBN13: 9781350100664
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"