Empire of fashion, the: dressing modern democracy
Auteur :
Lipovetsky, Gilles
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691102627
Date de publication :
21 juil. 2002
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
425 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.