Fashioning Professionals - by Leah Armstrong & Felice McDowell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry. <i>Fashioning Professionals</i> addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and in the digital age, as new ways of working and doing business have given rise to new professional identities.<br/> <br/> Bringing together critical reflections from international researchers, the book spans fashion, design, art, architecture, and advertising. It examines both traditional and emergent roles in creative industries, from advertising executives and surrealist artists to mannequin designers, pop stylists, bloggers, makers and design curators. The book reveals how professional identities are continually in a state of <i>fashioning</i>, through style, taste, gender and cultural representation, highlighting moments of friction and flux in the creative labour of the global economy. <br/>Interweaving critical perspectives from fashion and design history with sociology and cultural theory, <i>Fashioning Professionals </i>addresses a burgeoning area of research as we enter new terrain in fashion and the creative industries.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Exploring design, fashion, architecture, and art, this series of essays offers new and provoking insights into shifting conceptions of professional identities in the creative industries.<br><br>Pulling together far reaching ideas with the concept of "fashioning, +? the authors open the analysis beyond the usual suspects of dress, the fashion system, or self-expression ... the essays collected here will please and challenge readers from a broad swathe of scholarly fields.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Felice McDowell</b> is Associate Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. <p/> <b>Leah Armstrong</b> is Senior Lecturer in Design History at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.</p>
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