Bartlett, Djurdja (2019) Can Fashion Be Defended? In: Fashion and Politics. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, pp. 16-57. ISBN 978-0-300-238860
Type of Research: | Book Section |
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Creators: | Bartlett, Djurdja |
Description: | Fashion’s complicity with the global dispersion of commodity culture is unquestionable. Yet, can fashion, imperfect as it is, be defended? Bartlett maintains that, as an embodied everyday practice, fashion is endowed with the capacity to bring pleasure, to incite and transmit affect. Thus, she argues, in an era when politics is largely mistrusted, and increasingly divides people along lines of nation, class, race, sex and gender, fashion might effectively provide a means of challenging such dissension. As a globally dispersed, emotionally charged and highly visual practice in our image-saturated world, fashion may even go some way to repair old and new injustices, at the same time creating a bridge between politics and economics, so providing a platform for today’s most urgent social and cultural conversations. |
Official Website: | https://yalebooks.co.uk/ |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | affect, commodity, nationalism, politics, post-socialist, post-colonial, socialist, transnational |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Yale University Press |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Fashion |
Date: | 27 August 2019 |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2019 13:27 |
Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2019 15:40 |
Item ID: | 14011 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14011 |
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