Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry

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Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal specifically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face. It also considers how models glamorize consumption through everyday activities, and neoliberal labour forms via reality TV. With commentaries from industry professionals who experienced the cultural juggernaut of the supermodels, the final essay situates their impact within the rise of brand culture and the globalization of fashion markets since Accessible and highly engaging, Fashioning Models is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and related disciplines.

Paperback , pages. Published January 17th by Bloomsbury Academic first published August 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Fashioning Models , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Dec 21, Malcolm rated it really liked it Shelves: It seems at times as if the dominant image of fashion models fluctuates between spoilt brats, exploited young women and vapid clotheshorses. In academic circles at least this view has been being undermined for some time by a growing body of work looking at models as workers, work that Entwistle and Wissenger have been key players in.

This is an extremely good collection of papers that takes us well beyond the semiotic significance of models — beyond appearance and image — to explore the system o It seems at times as if the dominant image of fashion models fluctuates between spoilt brats, exploited young women and vapid clotheshorses. This is an extremely good collection of papers that takes us well beyond the semiotic significance of models — beyond appearance and image — to explore the system of industrial and economic production of fashion models and with that the production of consumption.

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