Fashion studies : research methods, sites, and practices / edited by Heike Jenss.
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TextSeries: Dress, body, culturePublication details: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, [2016]Description: xx, 222 pages : illustrations; 23 cmISBN: - 9781472583161(pbk.)
- 1472583167(pbk.)
- 391 JEN
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-214) and index (pages 215-222)
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Notes on Contributors (p. xi)
- Acknowledgments (p. xv)
- Foreword (p. xvii)
- Introduction: Locating Fashion/Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices (p. 1)
- Section 1 Approaching Fashion and Dress as Material Culture (p. 19)
- Introduction (p. 21)
- 1 In Search of the Everyday: Museums, Collections, and Representations of Fashion in London and New York (p. 25)
- 2 "Humble" Blue Jeans: Material Culture Approaches to Understanding the Ordinary, Global, and the Personal (p. 42)
- Section 2 Exploring Fashion Practices Through Ethnography (p. 59)
- Introduction (p. 61)
- 3 Ethnographic Entanglements: Memory and Narrative in the Global Fashion Industry (p. 66)
- 4 Urban Fieldnotes: An Auto-Ethnography of Street Style Blogging (p. 83)
- 5 Recasting Fashion Image Production: An Ethnographic and Practice-Based Approach to Investigating Bodies as Media (p. 101)
- 6 Exploring Creativity: An Ethnographic Approach to Studying Fashion Design Pedagogy (p. 117)
- Section 3 Mixed Methods (p. 135)
- Introduction (p. 137)
- 7 Fitting Sources-Tailoring Methods: A Case Study of Martin Margiela and the Temporalities of Fashion (p. 142)
- 8 Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Fashion Studies: Philosophical Underpinnings and Multiple Masculinities (p. 160)
- 9 Action! Or, Exploring Diffractive Methods for Fashion Research (p. 181)
- 10 Editing Fashion Studies: Reflections on Methodology and Interdisciplinarity in The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (p. 198)
- Index (p. 215)