{"product_id":"9781474273718","title":"Colors in Fashion","description":"Color 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 as mutable, nuanced, and varied as color itself. Divided into four thematic 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile acknowledging the importance that technology has played in the development of new dyes, the chapters explore color as a catalyst for technical innovation that continues to inspire designers, artists, and performers. Bringing together cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars, it is essential reading for academics of fashion, textiles, design, cultural studies and art history.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141641879792,"sku":"9781474273718","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781474273718_p0.jpg?v=1763604877","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781474273718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}