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Description
The time is perfect for a short, smart purse book. The good bag has nudged out shoes, jeans, and jewelry as the must-have fashion possession. Despite price hikes -- $1,445 for a Prada bowler bag that once cost $940 -- the craze for high-end purses helps fuel the booming luxury-goods market and, via knock-offs, hugely influences the $6 billion-a-year mainstream handbag industry. But purse mania isn't just an outgrowth of a strong luxury-goods market -- human thoughts, feelings, and dreams are involved, too. As Nadia, a high-powered interior designer says, My cell and my big Tod's purse -- that is my life.
In IT'S IN THE BAG, noted journalist Winifred Gallagher explains it what means for a purse to be a life. This cultural history of the handbag borrows from psychology (Freud noted that sometimes a purse is a vagina -- which is perhaps why the first handbags were carried by men!), sociology (a purse as a status symbol) and even economics (Why have prices gotten so steep?). Researched and erudite yet always fun, Winifred Gallagher offers in IT'S IN THE BAG a charming theory of modern identity as seen through one of our keenest obsessions.
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Contenu
- Nombre de pages :
- 128
- Langue:
- Anglais
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9780061137488
- Date de parution :
- 31-10-06
- Format:
- Livre relié
- Format numérique:
- Genaaid
- Dimensions :
- 158 mm x 200 mm
- Poids :
- 235 g
