EAN: 9781350110168

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL JOB IN THE WORLD - GIULIA ME...

A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture - Book of the Week  Times Higher Education Fashion
is one of the most powerful industries in the world  accounting for 6% of global consumption
and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the neoliberal economy  it has emerged
as the glittering face of capitalism  bringing together prestige  power and beauty and
occupying a central place in media and consumer fantasies. Yet the fashion industry  which
claims to offer highly desirable job opportunities  relies significantly on job instability 
not just in outsourced garment production but at the very heart of its creative production of
luxury. Based on an in-depth investigation involving stylists  models  designers  hairdressers
make-up artists  photographers and interns  anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri goes behind
fashion's glamorous facade to explore the lived realities of working in the industry. This
challenging book lays bare the working conditions of 'the most beautiful job in the world '
showing that exploitation isn't confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment of models 
but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic centre of fashion.

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