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The Geographies of Fashion: Consumption, Space, and Value
Louise Crewe
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Description for The Geographies of Fashion: Consumption, Space, and Value
Paperback. Editor(s): Eicher, Regents' Professor Emerita Joanne B (University of Minnesota). Series: Dress, Body, Culture (Paperback). Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AKT; JFS; JHMC; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 454.
Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the first in-depth study of fashion economies from a geographer's perspective, exploring the complex relationship between our attachment to the clothes we own, love and desire, and their geographic and economic ties. How far does a garment physically travel from factory to wardrobe? How do clothes come to have social or economic value and who or what creates it? What are the geographies of fashion and ... Read more
Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the first in-depth study of fashion economies from a geographer's perspective, exploring the complex relationship between our attachment to the clothes we own, love and desire, and their geographic and economic ties. How far does a garment physically travel from factory to wardrobe? How do clothes come to have social or economic value and who or what creates it? What are the geographies of fashion and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Dress, Body, Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472589552
SKU
V9781472589552
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Louise Crewe
Louise Crewe is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Reviews for The Geographies of Fashion: Consumption, Space, and Value
In Louise Crewe's extraordinary new book, fashion becomes the privileged lens through which to explore how we inhabit, interpret and understand the modern world's geography. The Geographies of Fashion opens up a broader unexplored spatial landscape to question and investigate notions of habitation, intimacy, memory and identity.
Francesca Murialdo, Middlesex University, UK. A much-needed analysis from a highly respected ... Read more
Francesca Murialdo, Middlesex University, UK. A much-needed analysis from a highly respected ... Read more