{"product_id":"fashion-as-creative-economy-angela-mcrobbie-9781509553846","title":"Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan","description":"\u003cp\u003eFashion is under the spotlight like never before. Activists call for environmental accountability, and wide-ranging debates highlight exploitation across global supply chains and the reliance on unpaid labour. Digital technology undermines traditional fashion companies, while small-scale independent fashion designers provide radical innovations in design and work in more socially inclusive ways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book contributes to a new sociology of fashion. Focusing on the working lives of independent designers and based on ethnographic research and interviews carried out in London, Berlin and Milan, the authors consider the urban policy regimes in place in these cities. They analyse how these regimes shape the microenterprises and the emerging political economy, as well as the structures needed for designers to flourish. They also develop several key concepts - the 'milieu of fashion labour', 'social fashion' and 'fashion diversity' - and chart the new world of digital fashion-tech and e-commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on lessons from European initiatives and recognizing the capacity of microenterprises and start-ups to determine fashion's future, the authors call for the industry to be significantly decentralized to ensure more diversity and less exclusivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angela McRobbie, Daniel Strutt, Carolina Bandinelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509553843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509553846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.43w x 0.87d","brand":"Angela McRobbie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071562412287,"sku":"9781509553846","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_544044a2-a72a-4527-8ed1-a89506d6d8a8.jpg?v=1685436843","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fashion-as-creative-economy-angela-mcrobbie-9781509553846","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}