Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

by Hazel Clark and Cheryl Buckley

Book Overview

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau's notion of 'the everyday' as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shaped by everyday life. Looking historically for the imprint of fashion within everyday routines such as going to work or shopping, or in leisure activities like dancing, the book identifies the 'fashion system of the ordinary', in which clothing has a distinct role in the making of self and identity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847888275
• ISBN13: 9781847888273
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"