British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry? [Paperback]

Angela McRobbie (Author)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Jun 26 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415057817
ISBN-13: 978-0415057813
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 381 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #537,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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British Fashion Design is a diligent and illumination sociological study of the careers of fashion designers. McRobbie has made out a strong case for attending more closely to cultural production - Jim McGuigan, New Times

'McRobbie is to be congratulated on providing business historians with a perspective on the fashion industry her book is well written and the organisation of the material is faultless.' - Katrina Honeyman, Business History, 41(3)

'A fascinating and skillfully narrated story of a creative workforce and its relation to contemporary British capitalism ... a wonderfully readable addition to any undergraduate course on contemporary industries, or on gender and employment.' - Nina Wakeford, Work, Employment and Society, June 2000

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British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stressing the social context of cultural production, McRobbie focuses on British fashion and its graduate designers as products of youth street culture, and analyses how designers from diverse backgrounds have created a labour market for themselves, remodelling `enterprise culture` to suit their own careers.

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The seeds for this study were first sown in 1989, at the end of the so-called 'designer decade' when a collection of articles, many of which had appeared throughout that decade in the political magazine Marxism Today, were published in a volume entitled New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s, edited by Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques (Hall and Jacques 1989). Read the first page

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hard Working, April 14 2000

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I never realised that entering fashion industry takes so much hard working, it's not as romantic as I imagined. Excellent book because author interviewed many young designers who works in this field, I enjoy it very much.

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