The End of Fashion. Clothing and Costume in the Age of Globalization. 3rd ed.

Abstract of the book "The End of Fashion. Clothing and Costume in the Age of Globalization. 3rd edition": "When the death of a phenomenon is proclaimed, this is not yet a reason to sound the alarm," the authors of the collective monograph "The End of Fashion" claim in the introduction. In their opinion, the modern world, despite the end of history, art and man himself declared at the end of the last century, is simply moving into a different state, and fashion, sensitively reacting to any social transformations, embodies this process. This idea receives comprehensive substantiation in the works of the largest theorists and historians of fashion: Hazel Clark, Adam Gecsi, Valerie Steele, Vicky Karaminas, Agnès Rocamora, Olga Weinstein, Hilary Radner, Sandy Black ... The authors focus on the interaction of fashion with modern industries (art, digital technologies, economics), as well as with the most important problems of today (globalization, ecology, memorial policy). From chapter to chapter, the reader is presented with a panorama of global cultural shifts, viewed through the prism of fashion as a universal and multifaceted semiotic system. Read more…