The Empire of Fashion

Dressing Modern Democracy

Lipovetsky, Gilles

Princeton University Press, 2002

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Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of "fashion," this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.

ISBN-13
9780691102627
ISBN-10
0691102627
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2002
Publication date
2002-07-21
Pages
288
Dimensions
234 x 154 x 17
Weight
454