The world atlas of street fashion / Caroline Cox

Author:: Cox, Caroline
Published:: New Haven, CT : published in association with Yale University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Physical Description:: 399 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents:

North America -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Europe -- Africa -- Austalia and New Zealand. Feral Tenterfield -- Sydney -- Mongrel mob: Hawkes Bay -- Steampunk: Oamuru -- Vintage: Napier.

Summary:

"Since the early 20th century, city sidewalks have become runways where idiosyncratic modes of dressing are presented, consumed, and exported. Their messages include resistance, solidarity, subversion, social transformation, or musical affiliation, and a group of like-minded individuals can create a powerful sartorial force. Organized by continent and with 600 color images, The World Atlas of Street Fashion examines street style in all its global diversity. The book shows how Punk's generic language of anarchy is redeployed in London, Berlin, Tokyo, or Jakarta and takes on the unique flavor of each. It also reveals how street style can be overtly political: the Sapeurs of Kinshasa use elegance to reframe themselves as gentlemen, and the cholo gangs of East Los Angeles took strength from the Chicano movement of the 1960s. Street style can also be obsessive, as seen here through the K-Pop enthusiasts of Seoul, who inhabit the lives of their music idols by re-creating publicity stills through elaborate cosplay. The author discusses how such scenes can develop cachet by being underground, fostering a look's distinctiveness and integrity. Through its extensive research, striking photography, and handsome design, World Atlas of Street Fashion is the essential resource on world street style"--Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9780300224030
0300224036

Note:

Includes index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2017

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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