Pricing Beauty : the Making of a Fashion Model.

By:

Mears, Ashley, 1980-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Authors imprintPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520950214
0520950216

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pricing Beauty : The Making of a Fashion Model.DDC classification:

338.4774692

LOC classification:

HD8039.M77 M43 2011

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Entry; Chapter 2. Economics of the Catwalk; Chapter 3. Becoming a Look; Chapter 4. The Tastemakers; Chapter 5. Size Zero High-End Ethnic; Chapter 6. Runway to Gender; Chapter 7. Exit; Appendix: The Precarious Labor of Ethnography; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

Summary: Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics--and the arbitrariness-- behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right "look" is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commo.

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Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics--and the arbitrariness-- behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right "look" is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commo.