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Fashion : philosophy for everyone : thinking with style / edited by Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett ; foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy for everyonePublication details: Malden, MA : Wiley, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781444345568
  • 1444345567
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 391.001 23
LOC classification:
  • GT521 .F38 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Introduction / Jessica Wolfendale, Jeanette Kennett -- Being Fashionable and being Cool. What Makes Something Fashionable? / Anya Farennikova, Jesse Prinz -- Fashion, Illusion, and Alienation / Nick Zangwill -- Tryhards, Fashion Victims, and Effortless Cool / Luke Russell -- Fashion, Style, and Design. The Aesthetics of Design / Andy Hamilton -- Share the Fantasy / Cynthia A Freeland -- Computational Couture / Ada Brunstein -- Fashion, Identity, and Freedom. Wearing your Values on your Sleeve / Daniel Yim -- Fashion and Sexual Identity, or why Recognition Matters / Samantha Brennan -- Slaves to Fashion? / Lauren Ashwell, Rae Langton -- Fashion Dolls and Feminism / Louise Collins -- Can we be Ethical . Sweatshops and Cynicism / Matthew F Pierlott -- Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping / Lisa Cassidy -- A Taste for Fashion / Marguerite La Caze -- Notes on Contributors.
Summary: If you just can't decide what to wear, this enlightening guide will lead you through the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining and thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers. A unique and enlightening insight into the underlying philosophy behind the power of fashion. Contributions address issues in fashion from a variety of viewpoints, including aesthetics, the nature of fashion and fashionability, ethics, gender and identity politics, and design.
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Front Matter -- Introduction / Jessica Wolfendale, Jeanette Kennett -- Being Fashionable and being Cool. What Makes Something Fashionable? / Anya Farennikova, Jesse Prinz -- Fashion, Illusion, and Alienation / Nick Zangwill -- Tryhards, Fashion Victims, and Effortless Cool / Luke Russell -- Fashion, Style, and Design. The Aesthetics of Design / Andy Hamilton -- Share the Fantasy / Cynthia A Freeland -- Computational Couture / Ada Brunstein -- Fashion, Identity, and Freedom. Wearing your Values on your Sleeve / Daniel Yim -- Fashion and Sexual Identity, or why Recognition Matters / Samantha Brennan -- Slaves to Fashion? / Lauren Ashwell, Rae Langton -- Fashion Dolls and Feminism / Louise Collins -- Can we be Ethical . Sweatshops and Cynicism / Matthew F Pierlott -- Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping / Lisa Cassidy -- A Taste for Fashion / Marguerite La Caze -- Notes on Contributors.

If you just can't decide what to wear, this enlightening guide will lead you through the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining and thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers. A unique and enlightening insight into the underlying philosophy behind the power of fashion. Contributions address issues in fashion from a variety of viewpoints, including aesthetics, the nature of fashion and fashionability, ethics, gender and identity politics, and design.