Fashion Culture

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    • The Making of a Fashion Model
    • By: Ashley Mears
    • Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Fashion, Gender, and Subculture (Dress, Body, Culture)
    • By: Yuniya Kawamura
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them....

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    • Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
    • By: Sarah A. Chrisman
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? Find out....

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    • How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
    • By: W. David Marx
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Solving the long-standing mysteries of culture—from the origin of our tastes and identities, to the perpetual cycles of fashions and fads—through a careful exploration of the fundamental human desire for status....

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    • How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
    • By: Sowmya Krishnamurthy
    • Narrated by: Angel Pean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This “first comprehensive anthology of the marriage between hip-hop and luxury fashion” (The Cut) draws on exclusive interviews to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years.

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    • Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
    • By: Julie Satow
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.

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    • A Brand, a Culture, a Community - a Life in Streetwear
    • By: Bobby Hundreds
    • Narrated by: Bobby Hundreds
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself....

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    • Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
    • By: Alicia Drake
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry....

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    • The Hype, Science, Culture & Cool of Running Shoes
    • By: Brian Metzler
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Sports journalist and veteran shoe tester Brian Metzler takes runners and kicksologists deep inside the $10 billion running shoe industry with a behind-the-curtain look at what makes iconic running shoe brands tick...

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    • By: Dennis Santaniello
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • Shoes And Why They Matter (Part of The Restroom Reads Series) From glass slippers to high-top sneakers, shoes have walked beside us through history...

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    • By: Brandon Bishop
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • It’s so easy to say that the 1980s were awesome. But were they really? Here’s a case-by-case study on whether or not the decade of the 1980s ...

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    • The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
    • By: Tansy E. Hoskins
    • Narrated by: Anneliese Rennie
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, the book explores consumerism, class, and advertising to reveal the interests which benefit from exploitation....

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    • By: Nicholas de Monchaux
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function....

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    • The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
    • By: Paul Baker
    • Narrated by: Paul Baker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. Paul Baker's highly anticipated reappraisal of camp surveys its touchstones across history and the changing ways that it has been understood....

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    • Theater, Fashion, and American Culture
    • By: Marlis Schweitzer
    • Narrated by: Laura Faye Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture....

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    • Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
    • By: Véronique Hyland
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industry—its history, its importance, why we wear what we wear, and why it matters—from Elle Magazine’s fashion features director....

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    • Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
    • By: Mike Madrid
    • Narrated by: Colby Elliott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Comic book superheroines bend steel, travel across time and space, and wield the awesome forces of nature....

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    • Commerce, Culture, and Consumers
    • By: Regina Lee Blaszczyk
    • Narrated by: Beth Richmond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • These essays show how economic institutions in Europe and North America laid the foundation for the global fashion system and sustained it commercially....

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    • The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
    • By: Alina Mitchell, Audrey Smaltz - foreword
    • Narrated by: LaQuita James
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Ophelia DeVore boldly overcame tragedy and hardship to become the first Black model in the United States of America. She possessed grace, finesse, intelligence, natural beauty, and courage....

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    • How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City
    • By: Elizabeth Currid
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands....

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