Description: "Uses influential fashion collections and shows to explore the huge shifts in identity, body politics, representation and authenticity in relation to clothing in Britain, Europe and America over the last 30 years"--
Brief description: Paul Jobling is Visiting Professor, MA Fashion Studies, Parsons New School, Paris, France. He is the author of Man Appeal(Berg, 2005).
Review Quotes:
"Gives currency to the importance of fashion as an arbiter of change at a time when the multiplicity and fragmentation of gender is affecting the ways we perceive and experience our bodies and our identities. Its contents will incite ideas and heated debates and I am sure it will be a book whose pages will be well-thumbed and whose subject matter will make for long and passionate arguments and conversations." --Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand
"Utilizing recent and historic examples, the authors offer a robust account of the role of the fashion industry in creating age, race, gender, and posthuman identities, both actual and fantastic. I finished this book with inspiration for my teaching and research." --Andrew Reilly, University of Hawai`i, Manoa,