TY - CHAP
T1 - What Contemporary Jewellery Might Have to Say about Fashion
AU - Brennan, Anne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Inter-Disciplinary Press 2014.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This chapter will take as its starting point Barthes’ essay ‘From Gemstones to Jewellery, ' in which he argues that jewellery, previously a marker of status and wealth, has been democratised by fashion through its appropriation of jewellery as an accessory, a detail of an outfit. Barthes argues that through this process, the value of jewellery is no longer arbitrated by economic value, but by taste. By addressing the ways in which photography has been used by contemporary jewellers to document and extend the meaning of their work, the chapter explores the limitations of the application of Barthes’ ideas to the preoccupations of contemporary jewellery.
AB - This chapter will take as its starting point Barthes’ essay ‘From Gemstones to Jewellery, ' in which he argues that jewellery, previously a marker of status and wealth, has been democratised by fashion through its appropriation of jewellery as an accessory, a detail of an outfit. Barthes argues that through this process, the value of jewellery is no longer arbitrated by economic value, but by taste. By addressing the ways in which photography has been used by contemporary jewellers to document and extend the meaning of their work, the chapter explores the limitations of the application of Barthes’ ideas to the preoccupations of contemporary jewellery.
KW - Awkward Beauty
KW - Barthes
KW - Caroline Broadhead
KW - Warwick Freeman
KW - contemporary jewellery
KW - fashion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142097762&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1163/9781848883093_025
DO - 10.1163/9781848883093_025
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789004371439
SP - 273
EP - 282
BT - Fashion and Its Multi-Cultural Facets
PB - Brill
ER -