Places and Spaces of Fashion 1800-2007

<p>The Places and Spaces of Fashion 1800-2007 brings together art design fashion and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not however these environments mitigate control inform and enhance how fashion is experienced performed consumed seen exhibited purchased appreciated and of course displayed. Space as this volume attempts to illustrate is itself a representational strategy on par with and influencing the visibility and visuality of fashion. Innovative and challenging the essays in this volume explore various physical and conceptual spaces moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional with paintings illustrations and photographs to chart similarities differences and complex nuanced relationships between environments fashion identities and visuality. The volume also navigates various sites (both permanent and temporary) of production circulation exhibition consumption and promotion of fashion that define meaning and knowledge about a culture or individual by providing for a bond between embodied consumers/spectators and fashion objects. The Places and Spaces of Fashion 1800-2007 is a compelling project with a thematic theoretical and historiographic approach that is at once both focused yet far-reaching and original in its implications. The volume engages with questions attending to the ‘modern condition’ by seamlessly weaving interdisciplinary discussions of the visual with material culture to explore the spatial dimension(s) of fashion. Some of the essays explore new and exciting spaces while others offer compelling revisionary analyses of relatively known sources</p>