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Author Lifter, Rachel, author.

Title Fashioning indie : popular fashion, music and gender / Rachel Lifter.

Publication Info. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Dress cultures
Dress cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From subculture to hot look: the evolution of indie -- Skinny boys and Parisian runways: the commodification of indie authenticity -- Wellies, fringe, and individual style: the commercial rise of festival fashion -- Prints, paints, and crop-tops: the emergence of Afro-diasporic festival fashion -- Beyond retro and the pop ragtrade.
Summary In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British indie music scene and its signature look--slender bodies clad in skinny jeans--to the center of popular fashion. Using this fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie narrates indie's evolution: from a 1980s British music subculture into a 21st-century international fashion phenomenon. It explores the lucrative transformation of indie style, first into high concept menswear and later into "festival fashion"--a womenswear phenomenon that remade what indie looked like and provided a launching point to reimagine who the ideal subject of indie could be. Fashioning Indie is essential reading for academic and popular audiences, offering an original account of what happens when a subculture is incorporated into the commercial fashion system. As the music and fashions of festivals face increasing scrutiny in debates about diversity and inclusion, and the transformations of indie style coincide with the global expansion of the second-hand retail sector, the book offers also essential insights into the broader culture of popular fashion in the 21st century and the values that inform it.
Note Print version record.
Subject Fashion -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century.
Indie culture.
Indie pop music -- Social aspects.
Popular culture -- History -- 21st century.
Fashion & society.
Fashion -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00921619
Indie culture. (OCoLC)fst01746866
Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Print version: Lifter, Rachel. Fashioning indie. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 1350126322 (OCoLC)1088528310
ISBN 9781350126336 (electronic book)
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