Full Description
Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-color images, from fashion runways to fine art photography and period cookbooks, examines the influence of food culture through the lens of fashion over the last 250 years. It focuses on the ways that food culture has expressed itself in fashion and how these connect to broader socio-cultural change, examining how vital both have been in expressing cultural movements across centuries, and specifically exploring the role food plays in fashionable expression.
With its superb selection of images, and thought-provoking and engaging discussion, Food and Fashion appeals to fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in food and food studies, including scholars and students, those who enjoy the fashion of food, and all who appreciate the visual culture of food, fashion, and art.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface by Valerie Steele, Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA
Preface by Fabio Parasecoli, Professor of Food Studies, New York University, USA
Introduction: Fashioning Food - Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way
Part 1: Food Meets Fashion: Contemporary and Historical Views
1. From Haute Cooking to Fast Food Chic: The Pairing of Food and Fashion - Melissa Marra-Alvarez
2. Haute Couture, Haute Cuisine - Elizabeth Way
3. Dressed to Dine: The Restaurant as Fashionable, Feminine Space - Elizabeth Way
Part 2: Activism: Nature, Labor, and the body
4. Growing Alternatives: Food, Fashion, and the Natural World - Melissa Marra-Alvarez
5. We Feed You: Protest Fashion and the United Farm Workers Union - Michelle McVicker
6. Don't Eat That: Food, Fashion, Dieting, and Disorder - Emma McLendon
Part 3: Cultural Representation
7. Wax Print Yams and Watermelon Hats: The African Diaspora in Food and Fashion - Elizabeth Way
8. The Cross-Cultural Transformations of Chinese Food and Fashion - Faith Cooper
9. I piaceri della tavola: Food, Fashion, and Italian identity - Melissa Marra-Alvarez
10. From Zen to Kitsch: Musings on Contemporary Japanese Food and Fashion - Patricia Mears
11. Without Maize There is No Mexico: Fashion & Corn - Tanya Melendez- Escalante
Part 4: Art and Visual Culture
12. The Eye Has to Eat: Food, Fashion, and Art's Enduring Intersects - Madeleine Luckel
13. Avocado Toast and Blonde Salad: Critical Perspectives on Fashion and Food on Instagram - Monica Titton
Bibliography
Index
