The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion

by Joanne Entwistle

Book Overview

Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and sold? Since there are few studies that actually examine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845204735
• ISBN13: 9781845204730
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"