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British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?

By Angela McRobbie

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
9780415057806, 0415057809, 0203168011, 9780203168011, 9780203283714
Open Library ID
OL22110463M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4176545 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\216
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Легкая промышленность;Швейная промышленность;Конст

Description

British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stressing the social context of cultural production, McRobbie focuses on British fashion and its graduate designers as products of youth street culture, and analyses how designers from diverse backgrounds have created a labour market for themselves, remodelling `enterprise culture` to suit their own careers.

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