Angela Mcrobbie

British Fashion Design

Rag Trade or Image Industry?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Renowned cultural critic Angela McRobbie explores the tensions between fashion as art form and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Examining the careers of particular British fashion designers, McRobbie analyzes the impact of fashion media in promoting new talent and its potential for job creation. Photos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415057813
• ISBN-10: 0415057817
• Artikelnr.: 21022702

Autorenporträt

Angela McRobbie

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 Fashion design and cultural production
2 Great debates in art and design education
3 The fashion girls and the painting boys
4 Fashion education
trade and industry
5 What kind of industry? From getting started to going bust
6 A mixed economy of fashion design
7 The art and craft of fashion design
8 Manufacture
money and markets in fashion design
9 A new kind of rag trade?
10 Fashion and the image industries
11 Livelihoods in fashion
Notes
References
Index