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Index
Cover
Title
Introduction
101 Thoughts on Why Fashion Matters
1. The Couture Laboratory
2. Closing the (Plastic Bottle) Loop
3. The ‘Clothes that Wear Us’
4. Prada, Zara and the Great Mark-Up Mystery
5. The African Luxury Market
6. Education, Experimentation and Attitude
7. Question: If all art was once contemporary, were all clothes once fashionable?
8. Corsets to Crinolines, Botox to Dieting
9. The Real Fashion Victims
10. Paris Chic, London Cool, Shanghai Style
11. The Tortoise and the Hare
12. The Demise of the Fashion Dictator
13. Singing the Denim Blues
14. The Advantage of Vintage
15. Question: Pipe Dreams
16. Carmen Dell’Orefice: A Model Example
17. Viva Italia
18. Articulate By Design
19. Fact: A Longer Life
20. Are Men the New Women?
21. Space Age Style
22. Fashion as Ecosystem
23. Question: If fashion is ephemeral and superficial, what does that say about us?
24. The Right to Buy
25. A Uniform Approach
26. Beyond The Bottom Line
27. Every Week Is Fashion Week
28. Trendsetter, Trendshirker
29. Cover Up
30. Perfecting Our Life/Style
31. Fact: Water
32. A Molecular Trend
33. Dress Up to Dress Down
34. Why Clothes Matter
35. Drawing a Line
36. The T-shirt Takeover
37. Back to Black
38. For the Love of a Label
39. Men in High-Heels
40. The World Needs More Wintour
41. A Question of Exposure
42. Not Just Another Branding Tool
43. Fashioning Stereotypes
44. The Creative Consumer
45. The Bra as Fashion Staple
46. Technological Tenacity
47. A Seat on the Front Row
48. The Optically Enhanced White Shirt
49. Indian Initiative
50. Fashion Signatures
51. Fashion and Feminism
52. Fact: The One-Trillion-Dollar Industry
53. A Short History of Facial Hair
54. The Luxury/Fashion Face-Off
55. Skin to Skin
56. Craft, Creativity and Commerce
57. Fresh-Faced To The World
58. The Changing Room
59. The Golden Goose
60. The Elephant in the Room
61. Juggling a Fashion Juggernaut
62. Time to Suit Up
63. A Question of Nationhood
64. Concrete Abstraction
65. Shop ’Til We Drop
66. Our Crowning Glory
67. You Are What You Wear
68. Cristóbal on Couture
69. The Media Monopoly on Beauty
70. Biodegradable Bio-plastic Stilettos
71. Fact: Production Standards
72. Our Fashion Footprint
73. How Very British of You
74. A Convenient Coincidence
75. Fashion Education Takes Flight
76. Question: Needs Vs. Wants
77. The Fashion Designer As Artist
78. Whereby Fashion and Death Have a Friendly Chat
79. Not Any Old Fish in the Sea
80. Retail Retrofit
81. The Language of Our Clothes
82. Choice, Glorious Choice
83. Leather Hides
84. A Sense of Belonging(s)
85. Industrial Evolution
86. The Emporium Strikes Back
87. Fact: Clothing Values
88. The Cappuccino Effect
89. African Style
90. Fashion as Sculpture
91. How Much Is Too Much?
92. Rubbish Questions
93. The Talent Incubator
94. Gloves
95. Frida Kahlo: Style Icon
96. In Pursuit of Fashion Immortality
97. Karl Lagerfeld and High-Tech Fur
98. Authenticity
99. Put Yourself In Their Shoes
100. Manufacturing Opportunity
101. An Afterthought
Acknowledgments
Further Reading and Selected Sources
Relevant Websites
Other titles of interest
About the author
Copyright
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