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Fashion, Media, Promotion: The New Black Magic


Fashion, Media, Promotion: The New Black Magic

Paperback by Sheridan, Jayne (Lecturer in Fashion Communication, University of Huddersfield, UK)

Fashion, Media, Promotion: The New Black Magic

£34.99

ISBN:
9781405194211
Publication Date:
23 Apr 2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pages:
264 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 - 30 May 2024
Fashion, Media, Promotion: The New Black Magic

Description

In Fashion, Media, Promotion: the new black magic Fashion is linked to its communication networks - involving the reader in the process of selling Fashion in the global marketplace. Fashion's ingenuity in adapting to new means of promotion for digital and print media, websites, advertising, cinema, music and television, is celebrated. Hollywood's role in shaping Fashion's influence is assessed through Audrey Hepburn's persuasive iconography and the impact of the most watched movie of the 20th century: Gone with the Wind. Exceptional designers Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Rei Kawakubo, Mary Quant, Elsa Schiaparelli, Vivienne Westwood are considered, together with extraordinary innovators Paul Smith, Vidal Sassoon, Lynne Franks. Roland Barthes' Fashion System and Mythologies are viewed as cultural and promotional texts, with revealing insights into the technologies which bring Fashion to mass audiences. Marketing and branding successes are reviewed and Fashion's continuing narrative is illustrated with luminous colour images.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii DEDICATION ix INTRODUCTION Fashion, Media, Promotion: The new black magic 1 CHAPTER ONE Scarlett O'Hara and the post-bellum New Look 31 CHAPTER TWO Audrey Hepburn and breakfast at Givenchy's 69 CHAPTER THREE Vivienne Westwood and Anglomania at the Met 105 CHAPTER FOUR Mary Quant and the JCPenney blockbuster 143 CHAPTER FIVE Paul Smith and the global shopping game 189 CONCLUSION Roland Barthes and the compassionate professionals 227 BIBLIOGRAPHY 243 INDEX 247

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