Contents

Introduction

1 Dress, Language and Communication

2 Dress and Social Identity

3 Style and Styles between Fashion and the Grotesque

4 Taste between Common Sense and Received Meaning

5 Everyday Models

6 The Face and the Gaze

7 Degree Zero of Fashion and the Body: The Model, the Nude and the Doll

8 Intertextual Strategies and Contemporary Mythology

9 Fashion and Cinema

10 Wearing Black

11 Mass Fashion: The Role of Fashion in Music

12 Time

13 Fashion Intertexts

14 Objects

Bibliography