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Writing Fashion Histories

the future. It is true that many science fiction writers and producers of sci-fi films dress their characters in classic, monotone...

Two Decades of Couture Fashion in France from 1919 until 1939

such as Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1976) who catered primarily to the Parisian aristocracy (Bourque et al, 1986). However, even Vion...

How Do ‘Identity’ And ‘Obsolescence’ Contribute To This Continual Change In the Fashion?

interpreted as obsolescence these may be lead socially or as a result of the fashion industry. Blumer (1969) argued that there we...

Modernity and Fashion's Role

consumerism bred upon itself (Finkelstein, 2004). It attracted mainly young men who were educated by the state "into believing in...

The Use of Customer Relationship Management in High End Fashion

satisfy certain criteria laid down by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Each year a list is drawn up by the commission wh...

Fashion in the 1930s

padded shoulders, which seem to emulate a very masculine appearance (Daily News Record, 1999; 64). Fashions began to incorporate b...

A Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Analysis)

even when told in an interesting manner, it might take quite a while to reveal the entire plot. Even with foreshadowing, telling a...

Greenblatt and Showalter on Writing

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares 2 books on literature and writing. Stephen Greenblatt, in his text Self-Fashioning, Fro...

Application Responses for Parsons Design School

fashion that exists within a single country, indicating the vast social divides that exist all across the world. Even within my ow...

The Devil Wears Prada: Why Fashion Is Important

entire American work ethic. Many books over the years have discussed the way in which American companies express support for famil...

Fashion During the 1950s Fashion

they were originally called the Atome. Association with the atom bomb did not seem very appropriate, hence the quick name change....

Designer Gianni Versace's Life and Achievements

own life. The tradition and style of Versace lives on and now his sister, Donatella, runs the company which is as successful as e...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

Fashion and Fashion Photography

Cliff Hollenbeck, author of the book entitled Swimsuit Model Photography, discusses the importance of specific elements when one i...

The Relationship of Photography to Cubism

Artistic fashion often has an influence on photographic fashion. This paper examines the artistic Cubism movement and how it affec...

Twentieth Century Fashion and Economics

In seven pages twentieth century fashion is examined in a consideration of nylon's invention, how the Second World War liberated w...

A History of American Fashion

to emerge in the latter part of the 1800s. Today, people are fashion conscious and this is something reflected in popular culture....

Consumer Culture and British Fashion Magazine Influence

the expectations of society but the unreal and artificial world of the media. A recent study of focus groups opinions of images fo...

Balenciaga Fashion House's Rise and Fall

attraction of this fashions house has been its history, and the way that it may be seen as being one of the most influential fashi...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

Fifty Years of Men’s Fashion from 1950 to 2000 and Designers of Change

Cinema was dominating mens fashions as businessmen sought to dress like Gregory Peck in The Man with the Gray Flannel Suit while t...

The Written Word and Creating a Response to a Problem

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper considers how the written word can be used to communicate very specific things, including the r...

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's HIstory Writing

providing a complete description of the village, its geography, demography, religious beliefs, social beliefs, families, sex, food...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer

In fifteen pages Shirer's text is critiqued in terms of the way in which the author uses his own personal experiences along with v...

History of Equestrian Fashion

In ten pages women's equestrian fashions are considered in this historical overview of past and present horseback riding attire. ...

Jesus and Socrates

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

Mexican Broadcast History

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...

H&M

at somewhat of a juxtaposition with a positions that may be interpreted as contradictory. The shop is clearly placed in the discou...

How to Teach Writing

This paper discusses methods for teaching writing. It argues that writing is not a gift but a skill that can be learned, and that ...

The New Chrysler LLC - An Analysis

silent transmissions, semi-automatic transmissions, different wheelbases, power steering, air bags, the first minivans, the first ...