Christopher Breward
Biographic Data
| ID | 6343451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Breward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Breward |
| SIGNATURE | BREWARD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Vers une histoire globale de la mode
L’étiquette « globale » s’applique désormais à des champs aussi différents que l’éducation, la communication et l’environnement. La mode est d’addition récente, alors que ce que veut dire ou revendiquer la notion de « mode globale » n’a rien d’évident. Cette conversation entre cinq chercheuses et chercheurs qui travaillent à l’intersection de la mode, de l’histoire, des études muséales, des études régionales, de l’anthropologie et de l’ethnograph…
Anna of Denmark
Fashion studies, five questions
Reflections on three decades of studies in fashion theory
Sartorial spectacle
This chapter considers how fin-de-siecle imperial preoccupations, together with an escalating sense of decadence or imminent collapse in the face of rapid social change, related to the experience of the urban everyday and the formation of metropolitan identities. It draws out the connections between imperial aspirations and metropolitan realities in the realm of men's clothing and physical appearance. The chapter illustrates the ways in which the…
The First Book of Fashion
Fashion
In 1947, the Parisian couturier Christian Dior launched his celebrated New Look, a collection that offered an aspirational alternative to the fabric restrictions and low consumer expectations of post-war austerity – seemingly re-routing fashionable trends in Europe and North America in the space of a season. The diarist had unwittingly become first a witness to, and then a participant in, the mysterious process of fashion change. Suffering from a…
Avis Charles
KEYWORDS: Avis Charles Associatesfashion industrySouth AfricaRwandacelebrity
Between the Museum and the Academy
This article takes a personal perspective on the shifting relationship between fashion research generated in the British higher education sector and in the museum context over the past ten years. It identifies the impact of new interdisciplinary approaches and funding opportunities and argues for the positive benefits of collaboration between the two professional fields The article reflects on the author's experience of working on three distinct …
Fashion’s World Cities
New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion’s world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wide…
Style and Subversion
This essay examines the emergence of the Neo–Edwardian look in postwar London. It traces a network of styles which took their meanings from the immediate environment and from broader social, economic and cultural trends, and suggests that the arising connections between place, class and gender identities provided an important precedent for the reinvention of London as a centre of fashion innovation in the 1960s. Utilising contemporary sociologica…
The Case of the Hidden Consumer
‘I always hold in having it if you fancy it!’ sang the music hall star Marie Lloyd in the final decade of the nineteenth century, a clarion call to an unapologetic and popular consumption of luxury commodities that appears to illustrate precisely the claims made for new forms of consumer behaviour by recent investigations into the nature of late nineteenth-century consumer culture. The character of both the evidence and much of the analysis surro…
In the Eye of the Storm
(2000). In the Eye of the Storm: Oxford Circus and the Fashioning of Modernity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3-26
Exhibition Review
(1999). Exhibition Review: satellites of fashion: hats, bags, shoes. The Crafts Council Gallery, London. Fashion Theory: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 269-272
Cultures, Identities, Histories
(1998). Cultures, Identities, Histories: Fashioning a Cultural Approach to Dress. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 301-313
Exhibition Review
(1997). Exhibition Review: Tanks and Trousseaus: Fashion in the Theater of War—Forties Fashion and the New Look. Imperial War Museum, London. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 313-320
On the Bank's Threshold’
Undressing the Past
Cultures, Identities, Histories
(1998). Cultures, Identities, Histories: Fashioning a Cultural Approach to Dress. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 301-313
Between the Museum and the Academy
This article takes a personal perspective on the shifting relationship between fashion research generated in the British higher education sector and in the museum context over the past ten years. It identifies the impact of new interdisciplinary approaches and funding opportunities and argues for the positive benefits of collaboration between the two professional fields The article reflects on the author's experience of working on three distinct …
Style and Subversion
This essay examines the emergence of the Neo–Edwardian look in postwar London. It traces a network of styles which took their meanings from the immediate environment and from broader social, economic and cultural trends, and suggests that the arising connections between place, class and gender identities provided an important precedent for the reinvention of London as a centre of fashion innovation in the 1960s. Utilising contemporary sociologica…
In the Eye of the Storm
(2000). In the Eye of the Storm: Oxford Circus and the Fashioning of Modernity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3-26
Undressing the Past
Exhibition Review
(1997). Exhibition Review: Tanks and Trousseaus: Fashion in the Theater of War—Forties Fashion and the New Look. Imperial War Museum, London. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 313-320
On the Bank's Threshold’
Cultures, Identities, Histories
(1998). Cultures, Identities, Histories: Fashioning a Cultural Approach to Dress. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 301-313
Exhibition Review
(1999). Exhibition Review: satellites of fashion: hats, bags, shoes. The Crafts Council Gallery, London. Fashion Theory: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 269-272
The Case of the Hidden Consumer
‘I always hold in having it if you fancy it!’ sang the music hall star Marie Lloyd in the final decade of the nineteenth century, a clarion call to an unapologetic and popular consumption of luxury commodities that appears to illustrate precisely the claims made for new forms of consumer behaviour by recent investigations into the nature of late nineteenth-century consumer culture. The character of both the evidence and much of the analysis surro…
In the Eye of the Storm
(2000). In the Eye of the Storm: Oxford Circus and the Fashioning of Modernity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3-26
Style and Subversion
This essay examines the emergence of the Neo–Edwardian look in postwar London. It traces a network of styles which took their meanings from the immediate environment and from broader social, economic and cultural trends, and suggests that the arising connections between place, class and gender identities provided an important precedent for the reinvention of London as a centre of fashion innovation in the 1960s. Utilising contemporary sociologica…
Fashion’s World Cities
New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion’s world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wide…
Between the Museum and the Academy
This article takes a personal perspective on the shifting relationship between fashion research generated in the British higher education sector and in the museum context over the past ten years. It identifies the impact of new interdisciplinary approaches and funding opportunities and argues for the positive benefits of collaboration between the two professional fields The article reflects on the author's experience of working on three distinct …
Avis Charles
KEYWORDS: Avis Charles Associatesfashion industrySouth AfricaRwandacelebrity
Fashion
In 1947, the Parisian couturier Christian Dior launched his celebrated New Look, a collection that offered an aspirational alternative to the fabric restrictions and low consumer expectations of post-war austerity – seemingly re-routing fashionable trends in Europe and North America in the space of a season. The diarist had unwittingly become first a witness to, and then a participant in, the mysterious process of fashion change. Suffering from a…
The First Book of Fashion
Sartorial spectacle
This chapter considers how fin-de-siecle imperial preoccupations, together with an escalating sense of decadence or imminent collapse in the face of rapid social change, related to the experience of the urban everyday and the formation of metropolitan identities. It draws out the connections between imperial aspirations and metropolitan realities in the realm of men's clothing and physical appearance. The chapter illustrates the ways in which the…
Reflections on three decades of studies in fashion theory
Fashion studies, five questions
Anna of Denmark
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Vers une histoire globale de la mode
L’étiquette « globale » s’applique désormais à des champs aussi différents que l’éducation, la communication et l’environnement. La mode est d’addition récente, alors que ce que veut dire ou revendiquer la notion de « mode globale » n’a rien d’évident. Cette conversation entre cinq chercheuses et chercheurs qui travaillent à l’intersection de la mode, de l’histoire, des études muséales, des études régionales, de l’anthropologie et de l’ethnograph…
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (15 works) · Art (13 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)