Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Anyone who loves studying about fashion will enjoy this book. It presents and comments on the major fashion theories, and it is not overly academic. I definitely recommend it!

I just wanted to offer an alternative viewpoint to P.Campbell's review. What they say is correct, in that there is a lot of academic language in this book, but I think only to a degree that is appropriate to the level the book is aimed at.The book refers to the 'dialectic' of fashion, there's a lot of 'mediating the body' etc, and true, Mr Davis does use the word 'apercu', which I will admit is nearly unforgiveable, when 'perception' would have done just as well.However overall this book reads in tone pretty similar to an issue of 'Dress, Body, Culture'. It's a standard text for graduate research - you HAVE to read this if you are serious about fashion theory. It's really pretty accessible for a university level text; much more so than Barthe's fashion writing.So, although it's not for everyone,I found this is a clear and insightful look at the way our culture and our dress influence each other.

This book is a psychologist's dream, but not so much for those who are interested in finding a fashion identity or making a fashion statement.

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The content is not exactly what I expected but yet the content is very informative. I'd recommend this to students pursuing fashion.

It’s really hard to read and understand. It feels like the author uses too many words to make it interesting. Simply does not make sense at the end

Fred Davis affronta il ruolo della moda nella società con una semplicità accessibile a tutti. Dal l'abito come industria culturale alla sua definizione dei ruoli di genere. Un'opera immancabile per gli appassionati del settore.

great book for trend reading.