Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture: Fashion and Food

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Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand)

Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture

Fashion and Food

Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia), Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand)

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English

Bloomsbury Visual Arts
03 November 2022

Fashion design & theory; History of fashion; Food & society

Series: Dress, Body, Culture

For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing. Trends in fashion and in food are increasingly being marketed in tandem and sold as fashionable commodities to reinforce capitalist power. Yet despite this, the reciprocal relationship between fashion and food has not been fully explored – until now.

Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture examines the relationship between food and fashion in clothing, style, and dress in all its manifestations, from the restaurant to the catwalk, to cookbooks, diet fads, slow food, fast fashion, celebrity chefs, artists, and musical performers. It traces the relationship between food and fashion back to the Middle Ages, to the rise of social refinements in manners, speech, clothing, and taste, when behaviours and appearances reflected social status and propriety and where the social display of wealth and privilege were inseparable from food and clothing. Nowadays, designer eateries such as Pasticceria Prada and Armani Ristorante and the display of food on fashion catwalks are the precursors of the restaurants of pre-Revolutionary France and the spectacles of world fairs and exhibitions.

This much-needed book offers a substantive and incisive discussion for all those interested in the complex interrelationship between food and fashion – scholars, students, and general readers alike.

By: Adam Geczy (University of Sydney Australia), Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350147508
ISBN 10: 1350147508
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 03 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia. Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at Massey University, New Zealand, and Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews for Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture: Fashion and Food

History, culture and art intersect in an original work to be read in one breath. * Patrizia Calefato, Aldo Moro University, Italy * A timely and lavishly illustrated book on the intertwined destinies of fashion and gastronomy and the convergence of taste and appearance. * Simona Segre Reinach, University of Bologna, Italy *