The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy (New French Thought Series)

by Catherine Porter (Translator), Gilles Lipovetsky (Author), Gilles Lipovetsky (Author), Catherine Porter (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2002

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  Focusing on clothing, bodily deportment, sex roles, sexual practices, and political rhetoric as forms of fashion, this work bounds across two thousand years of history, showing how the evolution of fashion from an upper-class privilege into a vehicle of popular expression closely follows the rise of democratic values.