Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
You Cannes Come In Here Dressed Like That: A True Story in Two Shoes....Pages 11-15
The Head Monkey at Paris: Henry David Thoreau on Fashion....Pages 17-21
Fashion Statements: Communication and Culture....Pages 23-34
Tech Savvy: Technology as the New Fashion Statement....Pages 35-42
Fleshing It Out: The Tyranny of the A-Line Skirt....Pages 43-45
Osh Kosh B’Gosh....Pages 47-48
The Fungi Dress—A Living Garment: Interview with Donna Franklin (July 2005)....Pages 49-55
Victimless Leather—A Prototype of Stitch-less Jacket grown in a Technoscientific “Body”....Pages 57-67
Is Clothing Art?....Pages 69-72
Fashion Advice from the Anti-Christ....Pages 73-80
Irony Killed by the Ironic T-shirt and the True Religion of the American Jean....Pages 81-87
Jackie O., Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Chanel....Pages 89-99
The Hat’s the Thing....Pages 101-115
’Pod Peeps: Why the iPad and Other Gadgets Are Fashion Staples in the ’Hood....Pages 117-117
Dressed to Kill: Or, Women’s Right to Bare Arms....Pages 119-125
The Naked Truth of Antifashion Philosophy....Pages 127-142
Vivienne Westwood: Keeping Critique Alive....Pages 143-158
Fashion at a Glance....Pages 159-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-180
Plato’s Greater Hippias....Pages 181-181
Back Matter....Pages 183-211
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