Author: Gilles Lipovetsky Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691102627 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
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This text draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. It argues that mass produced fashion offers many choices, which in turn enable consumers to become complex individuals within a consolidated society.
Author: BuYun Chen Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295745312 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
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Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style
Author: Cristina Barreto Publisher: ISBN: 9788857206509 Category : Fashion Languages : en Pages : 0
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Minimal luxury : fashion Napoleon style / Annamaria Sbisa ́-- The evolution of the revolutionary muse / Timothy Greenfield-Sanders -- About the collection / Cristina Barreto, Martin Lancaster -- "Journal des Dames et des Modes", "Costume Parisien" -- Directoire : the age of extravagance -- Aspects of life -- A day in the life -- Men : the origins of the modern look -- Jane Austen -- Napoleon and the economics of fashion -- The empire of fashion -- The emperor of fashion -- A democratic fashion : the evolution of cut and form 1795-1815 / Natalie Garbett -- A girl's best friends / Caterina Fuoco -- Restoration / Angela Lusvarghi -- Napoleon, the art of dictators, and the disenfranchisement of Parisian art / Demetrio Paparoni.
Author: Kei Hiruta Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691226121 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 288
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For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers—and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and experiences as Jewish émigré intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt intensely, saying that she represented “everything that I detest most,” while Arendt met Berlin’s hostility with indifference and suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama, tragedy and passion, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin tells, for the first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between these towering figures, and shows how their profoundly different views continue to offer important lessons for political thought today. Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, Kei Hiruta traces the Arendt–Berlin conflict, from their first meeting in wartime New York through their widening intellectual chasm during the 1950s, the controversy over Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, their final missed opportunity to engage with each other at a 1967 conference and Berlin’s continuing animosity toward Arendt after her death. Hiruta blends political philosophy and intellectual history to examine key issues that simultaneously connected and divided Arendt and Berlin, including the nature of totalitarianism, evil and the Holocaust, human agency and moral responsibility, Zionism, American democracy, British imperialism and the Hungarian Revolution. But, most of all, Arendt and Berlin disagreed over a question that goes to the heart of the human condition: what does it mean to be free?
Author: M. Vicente Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230603416 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 194
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By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.
Author: Bruno Marino Publisher: ISBN: 9780779501441 Category : Languages : en Pages : 288
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Do you want to enter the exciting world of Fashion? I will show you how! Inside this book is your complete guide to starting or improving your clothing business.Learn step by step what only industry insiders know.I will share my personal success story along with my 15 years of experience.This easy to read book is full of useful information which you can refer to again and again. INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK Learn How to Retail, Import and Wholesale like a professional, How to take your clothing line national within 1 Week, Effective Advertising and Marketing Techniques, Employee Training Manual How to aquire the perfect staff, eBay and Internet Selling for Profits, Creative Finance Techniques Open your doors with little or no money. BONUS included with the Book Trade Show Directory all major shows worldwide with schedule, Sample Business Forms and Ads to use for your business.CD ROM Containing 1000's of suppliers around the globe (worth the price of the book alone)
Author: Mark Lilla Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400863856 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 252
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The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French political thinkers writing today, including Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry, and Alain Renaut. The central theme of these essays is liberal democracy: its nature, its development, its problems, its fundamental legitimacy. Although these themes are familiar to American and British readers, the French approach to them--which is profoundly historical and rooted in the tradition of continental philosophy--is quite different from our customary one. Included in this collection is a series of reconsiderations of French critics of liberal society (Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Bourdieu) and of classical European liberals (Kant, Constant, Tocqueville). The continuing controversies over the nature of the modern era and the place of religion within it play a central role throughout the collection. The book includes a debate on the foundations of human rights and on the nature of a liberal political order. The concluding section presents some of the new sociological writing on modern individualism, its pleasures and its discontents. An introduction by Mark Lilla provides the historical background to the revival of French political thought about liberalism, and offers an analysis of what American and English readers might learn from it. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Valerie Steele Publisher: Assouline Publishing ISBN: 1614280169 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 6
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In this limited edition, Ultimate Collection format linen clamshell and handmade oversized book, Valerie Steele flexes her curatorial muscle by showcasing the most iconic dresses of the twentieth century. From Poiret to Pucci, Doucet to Dior, Vionnet to Valentino, Steele selects one hundred dresses that caused a stir either on the runway or entering a room and ultimately inspired new directions in fashion. Steele’s selections include Paul Poiret's figure-liberating 1907 gown, Madame Grès’s sublimely draped goddess creation from 1938, Jean Paul Gaultier's shockingly exaggerated cone-bust corset dress circa 1984, and Hussein Chalayan’s awe-inspiring remote-control fiberglass Airplane dress from 2000. The compilation, while certainly subjective, is sure to receive nods of recognition along with a gasp or two of surprise.
Author: Valerie Steele Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474245498 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 344
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Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele's Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture – created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers. First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion's multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.
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