e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Marx, W. David.
Subjects
Men's clothing -- Japan -- History.
Fashion designers -- Japan -- Biography.
Fashion design -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Fashion -- Japan -- History.
Popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Marx, W. David.
by title:
Ametora : how Japan ...
by call number:
746.920952 M392a
Search the Web
Marx, W. David.
Men's clothing -- Japan -- History.
Fashion designers -- Japan -- Biography.
Fashion design -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Fashion -- Japan -- History.
Popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Ametora : how
Japan
saved American style / W. David Marx.
by
Marx, W. David.
Basic Books, 2015.
Call #:
746.920952 M392a
Subjects
Men's clothing
--
Japan
--
History
.
Fashion
designers
--
Japan
--
Biography.
Fashion
design
--
Japan
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Fashion
--
Japan
--
History
.
Popular culture
--
Japan
--
History
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9780465059737 (hc.)
0465059732 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How
Japan
saved American style
Description:
xvi, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.
Summary:
"From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look
--
known as ametora, or "American traditional"
--
and turned it into a huge business for companies like Uniqlo, Kamakura Shirts, Evisu, and Kapital. This phenomenon is part of a long dialogue between Japanese and American
fashion
; in fact, many of the basic items and traditions of the modern American wardrobe are alive and well today thanks to the stewardship of Japanese consumers and
fashion
cognoscenti, who ritualized and preserved these American styles during periods when they were out of vogue in their native land. Cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American
fashion
over the past hundred and fifty years, showing how Japanese trendsetters and entrepreneurs mimicked, adapted, imported, and ultimately perfected American style, dramatically reshaping not only
Japan
's culture but also our own in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
746.920952 M392a
Adult books
Trace
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.