Full Description
Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles. Case studies include the male suit in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest (1959), the revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena (north-East Italy)
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Production Into Consumption: Materialism in Fashion
Chapter 2: Historical Materialism and Historicism: The Tiger's Leap
Chapter 3: Sartorial Semantics: Le Mot dans la mode
Chapter 4: Markets for Modernity: Salons, Galleries and Fashion
Chapter 5: Structuralism and Materialism: The Language of a Pur(e)Suit
Chapter 6: Dialectics in C.C.P.
Chapter 7: Primary Material
Concluding Remark
Select bibliography
Index
