Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model

Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry...
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Author: Ashley Mears
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Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model by Mears, Ashley

Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model

CHF 50.09

Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model

CHF 50.09
Author: Ashley Mears
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics--and the arbitrariness-- behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right "look" is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, Pricing Beauty offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.

Author: Ashley Mears
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/14/2011
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780520270763


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2011
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/16/2011 pg. 7
Choice 02/01/2012

About the Author
Ashley Mears is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University

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