Fashion Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Research Methods, Sites, and Practices
Redaktion: Jenss, Heike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking volume offers fascinating insights into the complex dynamics of research and fashion.

Featuring unique case studies, with interdisciplinary scholars reflecting on their practical research experiences, Fashion Studies provides rich and nuanced perspectives on the use, and mixing and matching of methodological approaches - including object and image based research, the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods and the fluid bridging of theory and practice. Engaging with diverse subjects, from ethnographies of model casting and street-style blogging, wardrobe studies and a material culture analysis of global denim wearing, to Martin Margiela's design and archival methods, Fashion Studies presents complex approaches in a lively and informative manner that will appeal to students of fashion, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and related fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472583192
• Artikelnr.: 44199201

Autorenporträt

Heike Jenss is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA. Foreword by Christopher Breward, Principal of Edinburgh College of Art, UK and Vice Principal for the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Christopher Breward
Edinburgh College of Art
UK Introduction - Locating Fashion/Studies: Research Methods
Sites and Practices
Heike Jenss
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA SECTION ONE: APPROACHING FASHION AND DRESS AS MATERIAL CULTURE Introduction
Heike Jenss
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA 1. In Search of the Everyday: Museums
Collections and Representations of Fashion in London and New York
Cheryl Buckley
University of Brighton
UK
and Hazel Clark
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA 2. 'Humble' Blue Jeans: Material Culture Approaches to Understanding the Ordinary
Global
and the Personal
Sophie Woodward
University of Manchester
UK SECTION TWO: EXPLORING FASHION PRACTICES THROUGH ETHNOGRAPHY Introduction
Heike Jenss
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA 3. Ethnographic Entanglements: Memory and Narrative in the Global Fashion Industry
Christina Moon
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA 4. Urban Fieldnotes: An Auto-Ethnography of Street Style Blogging
Brent Luvaas
Drexel University
USA 5. Recasting Fashion Image Production: An Ethnographic and Practice-Based Approach to Investigating Bodies as Media
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
University of Cincinnati
USA 6. Exploring Creativity: An Ethnographic Approach to Studying Fashion Design Pedagogy
Todd Nicewonger
University of Gothenburg
Sweden SECTION THREE: MIXED METHODS Introduction
Heike Jenss
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA 7. Fitting Sources - Tailoring Methods: A Case-Study of Martin Margiela and the Temporalities of Fashion
Francesca Granata
Parsons School of Design
The New School
USA 8. Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Fashion Studies: Philosophical Underpinnings and Multiple Masculinities
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California
Davis
USA
and Denise N. Green
Cornell University
USA 9. Action! Or
Exploring Diffractive Methods for Fashion Research
Otto von Busch
Konstfack University College of Arts
Crafts and Design
Sweden 10. Editing Fashion Studies: Reflections on Methodology and Interdisciplinarity in The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
Joanne B. Eicher
University of Minnesota
USA Index