The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy

by Gilles Lipovetsky

Book Overview

In a book full of playful irony and striking insights, the controversial social philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," Lipovetsky bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691102627
• ISBN13: 9780691102627
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"