Fashion as cultural translation : signs, images, narratives /

The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashion is the main referen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calefato, Patrizia (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: London : Anthem Press, 2021.
Series:Anthem studies in fashion, dress and visual cultures
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1g13jpq
Table of Contents:
  • Time
  • Spaces
  • Fashion as cultural tradition: Italian style
  • Fashion as cultural translation
  • Clothed bodies
  • The body as text
  • Humans and beyond
  • Fashion and the "second nature"
  • Fashion, communication and converging media
  • Fashion narratives in visual culture.