Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture by Adam Geczy

Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture by Adam Geczy

For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing. Trends in fashion and in food are increasingly being marketed in tandem and sold as fashionable commodities to reinforce capitalist power. Yet despite this, the reciprocal relationship between fashion and food has not been fully explored – until now. Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture examines the relationship between food and fashion in clothing, style, and dress in all its manifestations, from the restaurant to the catwalk, to cookbooks, diet fads, slow food, fast fashion, celebrity chefs, artists, and musical performers. It traces the relationship between food and fashion back to the Middle Ages, to the rise of social refinements in manners, speech, clothing, and taste, when behaviours and appearances reflected social status and propriety and where the social display of wealth and privilege were inseparable from food and clothing. Nowadays, designer eateries such as Pasticceria Prada and Armani Ristorante and the display of food on fashion catwalks are the precursors of the restaurants of pre-Revolutionary France and the spectacles of world fairs and exhibitions. This much-needed book offers a substantive and incisive discussion for all those interested in the complex interrelationship between food and fashion – scholars, students, and general readers alike.

History, culture and art intersect in an original work to be read in one breath* Patrizia Calefato, Aldo Moro University, Italy *
A timely and lavishly illustrated book on the intertwined destinies of fashion and gastronomy and the convergence of taste and appearance. * Simona Segre Reinach, University of Bologna, Italy *

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia.

Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at Massey University, New Zealand, and Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781350147492
ISBN 10	1350147494
Title	Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture
Author	Adam Geczy
Series	Dress Body Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2022-11-03
Number of pages	264
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.