{"product_id":"colors-in-fashion-9781350077409","title":"Colors in Fashion","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Faiers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fashion \u0026amp; Accessories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColor speaks a powerful cultural language, conveying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have revealed how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking compilation is the first to investigate how color in fashionable and ceremonial dress has played a significant social role, indicating acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the use of white in pioneering feminism to the penchant for black in post-war France, and from mystical scarlet broadcloth to the horrors of arsenic-laden green fashion, this publication demonstrates that color in dress is never straightforward. Divided into four parts - solidarity, power, innovation, and desire - each section highlights the often violent, emotional histories of color in dress across geographical, temporal and cultural boundaries. Underlying today's relaxed attitude to color lies a chromatic complexity that speaks of wars, migrations and economics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together cutting-edge chapters from leading scholars, it is essential reading for students of fashion, textiles, design, cultural studies and art history.","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082945814679,"sku":"9781350077409","price":2695.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350077409.webp?v=1767635329","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/colors-in-fashion-9781350077409","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}