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Bachelor of Fashion Design: FDCUL101A Fashion Design and Culture

Weekly Readings

Cumming, V 2004, Understanding fashion history, Batsford, London.
Ribeiro, A 1998, ‘Re-fashioning art: some visual approaches to the study of the history of dress’, Fashion Theory, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 315-325, viewed 29 April 2021, Art & Architecture Complete.
Tortora, PG 2010, ‘History and development of fashion’, in JB Eicher & PG Tortora (eds), Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion, viewed 21 May 2021, Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
pp. 159-170

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Frick, CC 2002, Dressing Renaissance Florence: families, fortunes, and fine clothing, eBook, viewed 21 May 2021, ProQuest ebook Central.

Kawamura, Y 2010, ‘The fashion industry’, in JB Eicher & PG Tortora (eds), Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion, viewed 21 May 2021, Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
pp. 191-203

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Steele, V 1988, Paris fashion: a cultural history, Oxford University Press, New York.
pp. 217-241

Reilly, A, Miller-Spillman, KA & Hunt-Hurst, P 2012, The meanings of dress, 3rd ed, Fairchild Books, New York.
Fashion, status and inequality in dress, pp.345-347
Ted Polhemus in the 21st century, n.d., Street Style, viewed 27 April 2021, <http://www.tedpolhemus.com/main_concept6%20467.html>.
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Reilly, A, Miller-Spillman, KA & Hunt-Hurst, P 2012, The meanings of dress, 3rd ed, Fairchild Books, New York.
The body, pp. 91-114
The appearance for gender, pp. 115-136
Appearance for sexuality and sexual identity, pp. 137-158

Reilly, A, Miller-Spillman, KA & Hunt-Hurst, P 2012, The meanings of dress, 3rd ed, Fairchild Books, New York.
Dress and technology, pp. 275-298

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Fashion practice
The journal of design, creative process and the fashion industry.
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Fashion theory
The journal of dress, body and culture - the journal is also available online via Academic Search Complete
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