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Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion
Mari Grinde Arntzen
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Description for Dress Code: The Naked Truth About Fashion
Paperback. Dress Code takes a look at our love-hate 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. Num Pages: 128 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 121 x 24. Weight in Grams: 138.
Oscar Wilde once wrote, 'Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.' And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In Dress Code Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is - how we can be enthralled by the fashion world, and at the same time appalled by the politics and practices of the garment industry? This book questions why we h ave such a love-hate relation ship with fashion. Guiding us through the major figures and brands of today's fashion system, ... Read more
Oscar Wilde once wrote, 'Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.' And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In Dress Code Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is - how we can be enthralled by the fashion world, and at the same time appalled by the politics and practices of the garment industry? This book questions why we h ave such a love-hate relation ship with fashion. Guiding us through the major figures and brands of today's fashion system, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
138g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780234397
SKU
V9781780234397
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mari Grinde Arntzen
Mari Grinde Arntzen is a journalist who writes for Aftenposten and Dagens Naeringsliv and teaches at the School of Fashion Industry in Oslo.
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