Green is the new black: Celebrity chic and the "green" commodity fetish

Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 511-524

  Winge, Theresa M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"green" design; Celebrity chic; Commodity fetish; Eco dress; Ecofashion

Indexed keywords

EID: 60950735581     PISSN: 1362704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174108X346968     Document Type: Article

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