Fashion Statements On Style, Appearance, and Reality

While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion on its own hybrid, inflected, and heterogeneous terms. Celebrating the plurality and audacity inherent in its subject, Fashion Statements

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Fashion Statements

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On Style, Appearance, and Reality

Edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz

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Fashion Statements

FASHION STATEMENTS

Copyright © Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, 2010. All rights reserved.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–10542–3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fashion statements : on style, appearance, and reality / edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–230–10542–3 (alk. paper) 1. Fashion design. 2. Fashion—Philosophy. I. Scapp, Ron, 1955– II. Seitz, Brian, 1954– TT507.F35457 2010 746.99201—dc22

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A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: December 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America.

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Introduction: Just Looks Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz

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Part 1 New Look One

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You Cannes Come In Here Dressed Like That: A True Story in Two Shoes Erin Norris

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The Head Monkey at Paris: Henry David Thoreau on Fashion David Farrell Krell

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Three

Fashion Statements: Communication and Culture Malcolm Barnard

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Tech Savvy: Technology as the New Fashion Statement Ava Chin

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Five

Fleshing It Out: The Tyranny of the A-Line Skirt bell hooks

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Six

Osh Kosh B’Gosh Mary O’Donoghue

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Seven

The Fungi Dress—A Living Garment: Interview with Donna Franklin ( July 2005) Shannon Bell

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Victimless Leather—A Prototype of Stitch-less Jacket grown in a Technoscientific “Body” Shannon Bell

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