We dress to communicate who we are; or who we would like others to think we are; telling seductive fashion narratives through our adornment. Yet; today; fashion has been democratized through high-low collaborations; social media and real-time fashion mediation; complicating the basic dynamic of identity displays; and creating tension between personal statements and social performances. Fashioning Identity explores how this tension is performed through fashion production and consumption;by examining a diverse series of case studies - from ninety-year old fashion icons to the paradoxical rebellion in normcore; and from soccer jerseys in Kenya to heavy metal band T-shirts in Europe. Through these cases; the role of time; gender; age memory; novelty; copying; the body and resistance are considered within the context of the contemporary fashion scene. Offering a fresh approach to the subject by readdressing Fred Davis seminal concept of identity ambivalence in Fashion; Culture and Identity (1992); Mackinney-Valentin argues that we are in an epoch of status ambivalence; in which fashioning ones own identity has become increasingly complicated.
2016-11-08 2016-11-08File Name: B01MXE3X37
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