Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

by Rebecca Arnold

Fashion is a gigantic global industry, generating some three hundred billion dollars in revenue every year, and playing a significant role in the economic, political, cultural and social lives of a vast international audience. Despite this, and perhaps in part because of its prevalence in the media, it is often denigrated as trivial and superficial, as a sign of vanity and narcissism. Written by a highly regarded authority on twentieth-century fashion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0092JAIHA
• ISBN13: 9780199547906
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.9"