216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1 Fashion design and cultural production, 2 Great debates in art and design education, 3 The fashion girls and the painting boys, 4 Fashion education, trade and industry, 5 What kind of industry? From getting started to going bust, 6 A mixed economy of fashion design, 7 The art and craft of fashion design, 8 Manufacture, money and markets in fashion design, 9 A new kind of rag trade?, 10 Fashion and the image industries, 11 Livelihoods in fashion, Notes, References, Index
Biography
Angela McRobbie
British Fashion Design is a diligent and illumination sociological study of the careers of fashion designers. McRobbie has made out a strong case for attending more closely to cultural production - Jim McGuigan, New Times
'McRobbie is to be congratulated on providing business historians with a perspective on the fashion industry her book is well written and the organisation of the material is faultless.' - Katrina Honeyman, Business History, 41(3)
'A fascinating and skillfully narrated story of a creative workforce and its relation to contemporary British capitalism ... a wonderfully readable addition to any undergraduate course on contemporary industries, or on gender and employment.' - Nina Wakeford, Work, Employment and Society, June 2000
