Japanese fashion cultures : dress and gender in contemporary Japan / / Masafumi Monden |
Autore | Monden Masafumi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 391.00952 |
Collana | Dress, Body, Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Fashion - Japan - History
Clothing and dress - Japan - History Clothing and dress - Social aspects - Japan |
ISBN |
1-4725-8672-7
1-4725-8673-5 |
Classificazione | DES005000HIS000000SOC032000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCING JAPANESE FASHION, PAST AND PRESENT; Layers of Japanese aesthetic history; Dress and gender; Wearing gender in Japan; Interlaced flows of culture: seeing Japanese fashion globally; Reflections and distortions: representations as a source for study; Tracing chapters; 2 LOST IN A GAZE: YOUNG MEN AND FASHION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN; Reading men's fashion: a brief history of Japanese men's fashion magazines; Japanese men's fashion periodicals: past and present
Neat, fresh and smart: Popeye , Men's non-no and FineboysThe age of sensibility: men's fashion magazines and defined age demographics; A boy's life; The face of the magazines: first impressions of the encounter; The pleasurable gaze: looking and being looked at; Through the magic looking-glass: men and vanity; Science versus the art of taking care of appearance; Conclusion; 3 BOY'S ELEGANCE: ALIMINALITY OF BOYISH CHARM AND OLD-WORLD SUAVITY; Fusion of European and Japanese aesthetic senses; The nationality of fashionable men In praise of youthful slenderness: preferred modes of male aesthetics in JapanWith a 26-inch waist: slenderness as the flower of Japanese male beauty; Elegant cowboys: D&G garments and stylistic transformations; Boyish reinvention of the 'Neo-Edwardian' dandy style; A marriage of the casual and elegant: popularization of elegance in contemporary Japanese men's styles; Boyish playfulness and old-world elegance: an aesthetic continuity and transformation of Milkboy; Edgy, cute and suave: Milkboy as a candy-box of boys' fashion aesthetics Dressing for time and occasion: negotiating romantic desires and narcissistic impulsesConclusion; 4 GLACÉ WONDERLAND: CUTENESS, SEXUALITY AND YOUNG WOMEN *; In the name of kawaii; A liminal space of dreaming: Japanese concept of shoj o; Alice's voyage to the empire of the sun; A Victorian girl with independence: Alice and a sense of autonomy; Being Alice in Japan: music videos of Alisa Mizuki, Tomoko Kawase and Kaela Kimura; A fairy tale without a prince: Japanese music videos and narrative themes; Alice vs Barbie: sexualization of femininity in American music videos Too cute to be good: some criticism of kawaiiGloomy wonderland: darker sides of the Victorian girl; A delicate kind of revolt; Three stages of subtle revolutions; The equilibrium of pastel and dark shades; Conclusion; 5 RIBBONS AND LACE: GIRLS, DECORATIVE FEMININITY AND ANDROGYNY; The dress of a bisque doll princess: aspects of Lolita fashion; Embroidering the romantic past: European dress aesthetics and Japanese appropriations; Decorative femininity: praises and criticism; A Lolita girl in the countryside: dress and Shimotsuma Monogatari Appearance says everything: dress and identity in Shimotsuma Monogatari |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786887703321 |
Monden Masafumi | ||
London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Japanese fashion cultures : dress and gender in contemporary Japan / / Masafumi Monden |
Autore | Monden Masafumi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 391.00952 |
Collana | Dress, Body, Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Fashion - Japan - History
Clothing and dress - Japan - History Clothing and dress - Social aspects - Japan |
ISBN |
1-4725-8672-7
1-4725-8673-5 |
Classificazione | DES005000HIS000000SOC032000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCING JAPANESE FASHION, PAST AND PRESENT; Layers of Japanese aesthetic history; Dress and gender; Wearing gender in Japan; Interlaced flows of culture: seeing Japanese fashion globally; Reflections and distortions: representations as a source for study; Tracing chapters; 2 LOST IN A GAZE: YOUNG MEN AND FASHION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN; Reading men's fashion: a brief history of Japanese men's fashion magazines; Japanese men's fashion periodicals: past and present
Neat, fresh and smart: Popeye , Men's non-no and FineboysThe age of sensibility: men's fashion magazines and defined age demographics; A boy's life; The face of the magazines: first impressions of the encounter; The pleasurable gaze: looking and being looked at; Through the magic looking-glass: men and vanity; Science versus the art of taking care of appearance; Conclusion; 3 BOY'S ELEGANCE: ALIMINALITY OF BOYISH CHARM AND OLD-WORLD SUAVITY; Fusion of European and Japanese aesthetic senses; The nationality of fashionable men In praise of youthful slenderness: preferred modes of male aesthetics in JapanWith a 26-inch waist: slenderness as the flower of Japanese male beauty; Elegant cowboys: D&G garments and stylistic transformations; Boyish reinvention of the 'Neo-Edwardian' dandy style; A marriage of the casual and elegant: popularization of elegance in contemporary Japanese men's styles; Boyish playfulness and old-world elegance: an aesthetic continuity and transformation of Milkboy; Edgy, cute and suave: Milkboy as a candy-box of boys' fashion aesthetics Dressing for time and occasion: negotiating romantic desires and narcissistic impulsesConclusion; 4 GLACÉ WONDERLAND: CUTENESS, SEXUALITY AND YOUNG WOMEN *; In the name of kawaii; A liminal space of dreaming: Japanese concept of shoj o; Alice's voyage to the empire of the sun; A Victorian girl with independence: Alice and a sense of autonomy; Being Alice in Japan: music videos of Alisa Mizuki, Tomoko Kawase and Kaela Kimura; A fairy tale without a prince: Japanese music videos and narrative themes; Alice vs Barbie: sexualization of femininity in American music videos Too cute to be good: some criticism of kawaiiGloomy wonderland: darker sides of the Victorian girl; A delicate kind of revolt; Three stages of subtle revolutions; The equilibrium of pastel and dark shades; Conclusion; 5 RIBBONS AND LACE: GIRLS, DECORATIVE FEMININITY AND ANDROGYNY; The dress of a bisque doll princess: aspects of Lolita fashion; Embroidering the romantic past: European dress aesthetics and Japanese appropriations; Decorative femininity: praises and criticism; A Lolita girl in the countryside: dress and Shimotsuma Monogatari Appearance says everything: dress and identity in Shimotsuma Monogatari |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806216903321 |
Monden Masafumi | ||
London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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