Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Wallenberg Louise
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Wallenberg Louise How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? The essays in this volume strive…
Specifikacia Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Wallenberg Louise
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present Wallenberg Louise
How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? The essays in this volume strive instead to show how the realities of the global fashion industry have important and pertinent aesthetic and ethical consequences.This collection provides critical and philosophical analysis of the interplay of aesthetics and ethics within the global fashion industry. Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often discussed in the context of abstract phenomena such as modernity and capitalism, or identity issues such as sexuality, class and gender.
Characterized by an increasingly fast spinning production, the industry is highly exploitative in terms of environment and labor force: underpaid textile workers, retailers working under brutal competition from the mass-merchandise discounters, young