Fashion Victim: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Dressing, Shopping, and the Cost of Style
by Lee, Michelle
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0767910486
- ISBN 13
- 9780767910484
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Broadway Books, 2003. xxv, 294 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Fashion has been transformed from an elite commodity to a powerful presence in mass market culture. We are obsessed with style, scouring magazines for the latest trends and racking up credit card debt to support compulsive shopping. In this book, journalist Lee blows the lid off the fashion industry and spotlights the often disturbing ways in which it is morphing our culture, our economy and our values. She traces the role of fashion through history, and explores the phenomenon of 'McFashion,' the proliferation of retailers like the Gap and Old Navy that are stripping us--and the designers they knock off--of individuality and innovation. And she probes the human cost of fashion's decadence, including distorted perceptions of beauty and the ugly financial disparity between those who make the clothes and those who buy them." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 074332
- Title
- Fashion Victim: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Dressing, Shopping, and the Cost of Style
- Author
- Lee, Michelle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0767910486
- ISBN 13
- 9780767910484
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Design / Fashion & Costume;
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About LEFT COAST BOOKS
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