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# 4.8/5 customer rating Top-ranked bestseller Comprehensive fashion history Fashion and Modernity

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## Summary

> 📖 Own the story behind every stitch of modern fashion!

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## Key Features

- • **A Scholarly Must-Have:** Praised as an essential bible for fashion students and professionals alike.
- • **Top-Tier Bestseller Status:** Ranks within the top 1,500 in Style & Clothing—join the trendsetters.
- • **Unlock the DNA of Modern Style:** Explore how fashion shapes identity and modernity across centuries.
- • **Deep-Dive into Cultural Dynamics:** Unpack the symbiotic ties between capitalism, gender, and fashion evolution.
- • **Timeless Insights, Timely Relevance:** From 17th-century court masques to 20th-century couture labs, history meets modernity.

## Overview

Fashion and Modernity is a critically acclaimed, top-ranked book that explores the intricate relationship between fashion, identity, and modernity through historical and cultural lenses. Highly rated by readers and essential for fashion students, it offers a deep, scholarly perspective on how fashion has shaped and been shaped by social processes from the 17th century to the modern day.

## Description

If fashion is an expression of individuality, why do we all dress alike? Can modernity be described as the experience of 'feeling modern' and, if so, what part does fashion play? Answering these intriguing questions and many more, this pioneering book shows how the concepts of fashion and modernity are intimately linked. It argues that capitalism and identity construction as social processes both have symbiotic relationships with the fashion system. Technology, the body, nationality and gender are informed and shaped by modernity, and vice versa. Drawing on key modernist texts as well as fashion theory and practice, this book seeks broadly to cover the history of fashion and modernity, a topic that has been surprisingly overlooked. Tackling themes including court masques in seventeenth-century London, Paris couturiers and forensic laboratories in twentieth-century Washington, the authors show how fashion throughout history has been a cornerstone in the construction of a modern self.

Review: A must read for the fashion student. - Used on and off as a bible/reference book throughout my critical and contextual study of fashion during my degree. This is a must buy.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,300 in Style & Clothing #2,278 in Fashion History #2,619 in Textile & Costume (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 5 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read for the fashion student.
*by A***E on January 17, 2014*

Used on and off as a bible/reference book throughout my critical and contextual study of fashion during my degree. This is a must buy.

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