The Culture of Fashion

The Culture of Fashion
By:"Christopher Breward"
Published on 1995-05-15 by Manchester University Press

This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meaning from medieval Europe to twentieth-century America. Breward's work provides the reader with a clear guide to the changes in style and taste and shows that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture

Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture
By:"Henk Th. van Veen"
Published on 2006-08-21 by Cambridge University Press

In this study, Henk Th. van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images during the course of his rule. The text examines not only art and architecture, but also literature, historiography, religion, and festive culture.

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword art.

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Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Fashion, Culture, and Identity
By:"Fred Davis"
Published on 1994-09-01 by University of Chicago Press

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be \

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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