Fashion as Cultural Translation: Signs, Images, Narratives

by Patrizia Calefato

The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashion is the main reference), the book crosses some of the main aspects of the contemporary culture of the clothed body: from time and space, to gender, to fashion as cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178527242X
• ISBN13: 9781785272424
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"