Fashioning identity status ambivalence in contemporary fashion / Maria Mackinney-Valentin.

Author/creator Mackinney-Valentin, Maria
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2017.
Descriptionxiv, 186 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects

SeriesDress and fashion research
Abstract "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, which has complicated the basic dynamic of identity displays, 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 fashion icons in their nineties and the paradoxical rebellion in 'normcore', to soccer Jerseys in Kenya and subcultural 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 one's own identity has become increasingly complicated."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 159-176) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016036513
ISBN9781474249102 (HB)

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