The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (eBook)

Tansy E. Hoskins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 2. Auflage
368 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4663-2 (ISBN)

Infos

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes tell a story of inequality, racism and climate crisis. InThe Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes.Fashion brands entice us to consume more by manipulating us to feel ugly, poor and worthless, sentiments that line the pockets of billionaires exploiting colonial supply chains. Garment workers on poverty pay risk their lives in dangerous factories, animals are tortured, fossil fuels extracted and toxic chemicals spread just to keep this seasons collections fresh.We can do better than this. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx,The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashiongoes beyond ethical fashion and consumer responsibility showing that if we want to feel comfortable in our clothes, we need to reshape the system and ensure this is not our last season.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2022
• Vorwort: Andreja Peji
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Abercrombie and Fitch • animal welfare and fashion • Anorexia • anti-capitalist fashion • asos • Body Image • boohoo • Bulimia • carbon footprint of fast fashion • carbon literary project • Chanel • Clean Clothes Campaign • climate change • clothes fashion industry • critique of fashion industry • cultural appropriation in fashion • deadly fashion • Dior • Eating Disorders • environmental impact of fast fashion • Environmentally friendly fashion • Ethical Fashion • Fair Fashion • fairtrade clothes • Fashion after capitalism • fashion and anorexia • fashion and body image • Fashion and climate change • fashion and exploitation • Fashion and racism • fashion and status • fashion and the environment • fashion expose • Fashion History • fashionopolis • Fashion production • fashion revolution • Fashion Week • Fast Fashion • Fendi • Garment Workers • Green Fashion • Green Washing • Gucci • history of fashion • Human Trafficking • Louis Vuitton • marxism and fashion • Missguided • Modern slavery • Nike • No Logo • no sweat • political fashion • politics of fashion • Prada • Pretty Little Thing • racist advertising • Rana Plaza • Rana Plaza disaster • reforming fashion • Saint Laurent • shein • socialist fashion • Sustainable fashion • sweat factory • Sweatshops • sweatshops in Bangladesh • Textile waste • the fashion industry • the impact of fashion on the global south • TopShop • Versace • Vivenne Westwood • Vogue • Zara • Zero waste fashion
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4663-4 / 0745346634
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4663-2 / 9780745346632