The Empire of Fashion:
Dressing Modern Democracy
Gilles Lipovetsky
Translated by Catherine Porter
With a foreword by Richard Sennett

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Foreword
	Introduction	3
Pt. 1	The Enchantment of Appearances
Ch. I	Fashion and the West: The Aristocratic Moment	18
Ch. II	A Century of Fashion	55
Ch. III	Open Fashion	88
Pt. 2	Consummate Fashion
Ch. IV	The Seduction of Things	134
Ch. V	Advertising on the Offensive	156
Ch. VI	Culture, Media Style	174
Ch. VII	Meaning Carries On	203
Ch. VIII	The Progressive Shifting of the Social	226
	Epilogue	242
	Notes	253
	Works Cited	265
	Index	271

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