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The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

Fashion is fun. Fashion gives power. Fashion is the favorite child of capitalism. Fashion is as great and exciting as the system behind it is dirty and destructive. British journalist Tansy Hoskins illuminates the business of fashion in its dark corners. From Haute Couture to H&M, from Karl Marx to Karl Lagerfeld, she talks about the emergence of the phenomenon of mass fashion, about the body and capitalism, advertising and resistance.
Refreshing and never instructive, Tansy Hoskins criticizes what fashion does to us consumers: Young people queuing up in front of the Nike shops overnight to grab the latest pair of sneakers. Women who are starving for "size zero". Is fashion racist, or why is it still a "white" business? And what to do about the black hole of wanting that never disappears, no matter how much you go shopping?
Step by step, this book unravels the threads from which the business is knitted, and it points out ways in a different direction, for fair production, environmental protection or the emancipation of dangerous ideals of beauty. Tansy Hoskins wants to revolutionize fashion just because she loves fashion!

Scope: 320 pages
Reference: Print (ISBN 978-3-85869-705-9): 24 €
The book is also available as an e-book.