Dress Code by Mari Grinde Arntzen
Dress Code takes a look at our lovehate relationship with fashion how it can make us feel powerful, beautiful and original, while at the same time it is oppressive and forces us to conform. This book guides us through the major figures and brands of today's fashion system, showing how they shape us and in turn why we love to be shaped by them.
Arntzen writes passionately, clearly burdened by the urgency of the problem of how to square the important values in which fashion trades (beauty, belonging and self-expression etc) with the disastrous ethical and environmental costs it incurs* TLS *
Brilliantly observed, Dress Code offers a timely expose of the influence of Fashion on everyday dress. A must read, even for those who think the way they dress has nothing to do with fashion. * Joanne Turney, Bath Spa University, and the author of The Culture of Knitting *
As an introduction to fashions imperative, its glitz, glamour and fundamentally problematic position in our self-images, our private and public economics, and our shared environment, Dress Code is a pointed and sharp little helper. * Lasse Midttun, Morgenbladet *
Brilliantly observed, Dress Code offers a timely expose of the influence of Fashion on everyday dress. A must read, even for those who think the way they dress has nothing to do with fashion. * Joanne Turney, Bath Spa University, and the author of The Culture of Knitting *
As an introduction to fashions imperative, its glitz, glamour and fundamentally problematic position in our self-images, our private and public economics, and our shared environment, Dress Code is a pointed and sharp little helper. * Lasse Midttun, Morgenbladet *
Mari Grinde Arntzen is a journalist who writes for Aftenposten and Dagens Næringsliv, and teaches at the School of Fashion Industry in Oslo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780234397 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780234392 |
| Title | Dress Code |
| Author | Mari Grinde Arntzen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2015-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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