Fashion and Materialism

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles. Case studies include the male suit in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest (1959), the revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena (north-East Italy)

Author: Ulrich Lehmann
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 08/07/2019
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781474452670

About the Author
Ulrich Lehmann is Research Professor and course leader for MA Fashion at the University for the Creative Arts at Rochester, Kent and Honorary Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has contributed to a wide range of journals and edited collections on fashion and material culture. He is the author of Josiah McElheny: Object Lesson (White Cube, 2013) and Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity (MIT Press, 2001).